More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
  2. The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the r…
  3. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
  4. To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
  5. Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
  6. Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
  7. His head was always most valuable when he had lost it. In such moments he put two and two together and made four million.
  8. If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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