217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, / And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know.
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Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Fools! for I also had my hour; / One far fierce hour and sweet: / There was a shout about my ears, / And palms before my feet.
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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
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For the great Gaels of Ireland / Are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry, / And all their songs are sad.
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For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, / Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine.
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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