Tag: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton