G. K. Chesterton

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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

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