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Wants Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be…
- 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…
- Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
- [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get…
- People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we…
- Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on…
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
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