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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make."

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."

"Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell."

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
Art

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
Art

"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

"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."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
Education

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
Education

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."
Sports

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