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May 29, 1874
More Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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