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This compilation includes a variety of Chesterton's essays, poems, and lectures, offering a comprehensive look into his influential and thought-provoking writing.
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“A naked moon stood in a naked sky.”
“Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.”
“No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”
“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.”
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
“Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.”
“It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.”
“I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.”
“if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.”
“somehow one must love the world without being worldly.”
“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller”
“The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.”
“I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.”
“A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.”
“I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.”
“Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.”