More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
  2. If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
  3. Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoet…
  4. His head was always most valuable when he had lost it. In such moments he put two and two together and made four million.
  5. Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other ki…
  6. Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
  7. No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or smoking, an …
  8. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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