Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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 healed because he has been hurt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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