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

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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There is no bigot like the atheist.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

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Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

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