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G. K. Chesterton Quotes

«The true object of all human life is play.»
«Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.»
«There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.»
«The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.»
«Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.»
«Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.»
«New roads; new ruts.»
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
«The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.»
«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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