Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."	Art, Beauty
"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down…. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."	Humor, Laughter, Men
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."	Love
"The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows; and that all things are but aspects of one thing; a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God? 'No,' said Father Brown."	Art, Evil, Faith
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."	Adversity, Desires, Difficulty
"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."	Books, Intelligence, Men
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."	Happiness, Joy
"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour."	Friends
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."	Love
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."	Courage, Men
"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
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."	Age, Ambition, Courage
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."	Lies
"Coincidences are spiritual puns."	Miscellaneous
"A good novel tells you the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author."	Evil, Good, Honesty
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."	Desires, Education, Knowledge
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."	Hope, Wishing
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it."	Honesty, Reading, Truth
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Darkness	Death	Democracy
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Evil	Excellence	Faith
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Good	Government	Happiness
History	Honesty	Hope
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Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Liberty	Lies
Life	Light	Love
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