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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Slang]
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Status]
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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Stupidity]
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Taste]
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Terrorism]
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Things and Little Things]
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Tradition]
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Trains]
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Travel and Tourism]
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Truth]
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Truth]
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Understanding]
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton - [Understanding]
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