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Running Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
- There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present…
- Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
- If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but…
- 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…
- A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
- The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was…
- It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
- [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
- 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…
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