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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

A yawn is a silent shout.
                -- G.K. Chesterton
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
- C. K. Chesterton
"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think
of saying, except in a desperate case.  It is like saying "My mother,
drunk or sober."
                -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Defendant"
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become
their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
                -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the
man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
                -- G.K. Chesterton
You will find me drinking gin
In the lowest kind of inn,
Because I am a rigid Vegetarian.
                -- G.K. Chesterton
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
                -- G.K. Chesterton
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend
of both parties tactfully interferes.
                -- G.K. Chesterton
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
                -- G.K. Chesterton
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
                -- G.K. Chesterton
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