Gilbert K. Chesterton | great
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | great
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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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.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | government
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | good
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.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton | god
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.
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