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Read Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book…
- The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did…
- What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
- There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when…
- Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it…
- The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough…
- I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
- A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
- But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
- The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
- If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace…
- People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books…
- St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page…
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