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Letter "G" » G. K. Chesterton Quotes
«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.»
«Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.»
«Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Literature has always been allegorical.»
«Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.»
«To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.»
«Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones.»
«A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma.»
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