Modesty is always beautiful

G.K. Chesterton


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Thrift is poetic because it is creative.

G.K. Chesterton


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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

G.K. Chesterton


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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

G.K. Chesterton


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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

G.K. Chesterton


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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

G.K. Chesterton


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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.

G.K. Chesterton


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It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

G.K. Chesterton


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The past is not what it was.

G.K. Chesterton


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