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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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 to read. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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