Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."	Anger, Honesty, Men
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."	Miscellaneous
"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life."	Happiness, Joy, Life
"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make."	History, Knowledge, Wisdom
"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice."	Choice, Excellence, Freedom
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."	Desires, Wants
"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."	Equality, Friends, Justice
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."	Happiness, Joy
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."	Love
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."	Darkness, Light
"Materialists and madmen never have doubts."	Doubt, Friends, Men
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."	Evil, Humor, Religion
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."	Lies
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it."	Honesty, Reading, Truth
"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."	Miscellaneous
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."	Adversity, Desires, Difficulty
"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."	Age, Military, War
"A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."	Art, Desires, Insults
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."	Hope, Wishing
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Anger	Art	Beauty
Books	Choice	Courage
Darkness	Death	Democracy
Desires	Destiny	Difficulty
Doubt	Education	Equality
Evil	Excellence	Faith
Fate	Freedom	Friends
Good	Government	Happiness
History	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Insults	Intelligence
Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Liberty	Lies
Life	Light	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Nature	Poetry
Reading	Religion	School
Strength	Teaching	Time
Truth	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Women