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Wanted Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
- The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many…
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to…
- He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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