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''Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "A Piece of Chalk," Tremendous Trifles (1909).
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The ...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "Thoughts Around Koepenick," All Things Considered (1908).
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White ... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black.... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "A Piece of Chalk," Tremendous Trifles (1909).
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''The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Tremendous Trifles, "The Riddle of the Ivy," (1909).
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For your God of dream or devil
You will answer, not to me.
Talk about the pews and steeples
And the Cash that goes therewith!
But the souls of Christian peoples . . .
Chuck it...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British poet. Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom; an Ode (l. 43-48). . .
The Oxford Anthology of Engl...
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''They haven't got no noses
The fallen sons of Eve;
Even the smell of roses
Is not what they supposes;
But more than mind discloses
And more than men believe.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. The Song of Quoodle, The Flying Inn, ch. 15 (1914).
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''An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. All Things Considered, "On Running After One's Hat," (1908).
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''But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. The Secret People, Poems (1915).
Closing lines of poem.
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Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bone...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "A Miscellany of Men," A Miscellany of Men (1912).
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their swords.
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. The Secret People, Poems (1915).
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The New Omar
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A Book of verses underneath the bough,
Provided that the verses do not scan,
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and Thou,
Short-haired, all angles, looking like a man.
But let the wine be unfermented, Pale,
Of chemicals compounded, God knows how--
This were indeed the Prophet's Paradise,
O Paradise were Wilderness enow.
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