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“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“I see in you also there are movements, tremors, tears, desire for
the melodious,
I salute your three violinists, endlessly making vibrations,
Rigid, relentless, capable of going on for ever;”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“You’ve no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself—and how little I deserve it.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Half a truth is better than no politics.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)