There is more simplicity in a man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts in principle.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.
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To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it because it is a fact.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A good civilization spreads over us like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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