Tag: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Being ‘contented’ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton