There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

—G. K. Chesterton

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About G. K. Chesterton

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, essayist, poet, and Christian apologist. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.

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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

—G. K. Chesterton

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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

—G. K. Chesterton

A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will

—G. K. Chesterton

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

—Groucho Marx

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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

—Terry Pratchett

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Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

—Tracee Ellis Ross

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

—e. e. cummings

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