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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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All is fair in love and songwriting. ↗

— Norah Jones

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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