Gilbert K. Chesterton | christmas
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?
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | wisdom
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | war
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | truth
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.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | travel
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.
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