G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
[Courage]
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
[Concentration]
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
[Poetry]
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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The Puritans are always denouncing books that inflame lust; what shall we say of books that inflame the viler passions of avarice and pride?
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
[Goals]
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
[Forgiveness]
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
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