Gilbert K. Chesterton

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A yawn is a silent shout. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#silent #yawn

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fiction #journalism #life #mainly #newspapers

The simplification of anything is always sensational. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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