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Quotes by Gilbert K Chesterton
- We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
- We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
- What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
- When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
- White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
- Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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