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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.