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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
WE MAKE OUR FRIENDS, WE MAKE OUR ENEMIES; BUT GOD MAKES OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOUR.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) foi um dos intelectuais mais prolíficos e influentes da Inglaterra do início do século XX. Sua obra abrange poesia, ficção (notavelmente os contos do Padre Brown), ensaios, crítica e apologética cristã. Chesterton era um mestre da paradoxo e da aforismo, usando seu humor e sua inteligência para defender ideias conservadoras e a fé cristã. Sua personalidade era tão marcante quanto sua escrita; era descrito como um homem corpulento, de aparência jovial e com uma mente brilhante e inquisitiva. Lutou contra o que via como o declínio do pensamento racional e espiritual na sociedade moderna, advogando por valores tradicionais e pela dignidade humana.