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Essentials Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere…
- A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are…
- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
- Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.
- I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of…
- The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;…
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