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The Ballad of the White Horse

Quote from G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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The Thing

Quote from G.K. Chesterton, The Thing

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory … we are all kings in exile.

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The Everlasting Man

Quote from G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News

Quote from G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism — self-denial.

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Quote from G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

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Quote from G.K. Chesterton, Heretics / Orthodoxy: Nelson’s Royal Classics

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

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Manalive

Quote from G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

Unhappy! of course you’ll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn’t be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

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Quote from G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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The Superstition of Divorce

Quote from G.K. Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce

…the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.

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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.

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