“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.”
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“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.”
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.”
-Gilbert K. Chesterton