The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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

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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

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Money… buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.… The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

—Fran Lebowitz

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If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

—Marc Chagall

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Your next-door neighbor… is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

—Quentin Crisp

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