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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? "

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" All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. "

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" The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. "

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" What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. "

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

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" Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. "

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" A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. "

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" Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. "

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" The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. "

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" You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. "

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" The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. "

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

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" We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. "

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" True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. "

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" A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. "

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" The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. "

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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. "

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" The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. "

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" 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. "

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" Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. "

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" Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. "

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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. "

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" There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. "

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" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. "

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" If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. "

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