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[Quote No.18421] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936), English humorist, essayist and critic Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.37241] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking [many] educated people seriously." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.37243] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.56856] Need Area: Body > General "[Age:] The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14735] Need Area: Property > Home "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English humorist, essayist and critic Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.50669] Need Area: Property > General "The free man owns himself. [That is the basis of all private property and from that all freedom!] He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist.
Source: Broadcast talk, June 11, 1935.
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[Quote No.36952] Need Area: Friends > General "Moderate strength is shown in [regrettable] violence, supreme strength is shown in [admirable] levity." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.50668] Need Area: Friends > General "The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist.
Source: Broadcast talk, June 11, 1935.
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[Quote No.62356] Need Area: Friends > General "[Individual freedom and personal responsibility versus paternalistic, interventionist, statist government:] The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist. Source: Broadcast talk, June 11, 1935.
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[Quote No.5976] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. " - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10973] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. " - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.7461] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction "True contentment... is getting out of any situation all that there is in it.
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