Effort Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.”

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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