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  1. RT @stbenedictpress: @G_K_Chesterton don't know if you've heard about the new Chesterton quote book available: http://tinyurl.com/ybgxflc
  2. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision
  3. Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it
  4. When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it
  5. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
  6. A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead.
  7. It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile
  8. Tradition does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are living
  9. Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly
  10. Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity
  11. If there were no God, there would be no atheists
  12. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder
  13. 'Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'
  14. Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing
  15. There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle
  16. Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
  17. who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it
  18. All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man
  19. to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea
  20. To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun