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Quotes by Gilbert K Chesterton
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
- I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
- 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.
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
- It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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