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• The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936), "The Hammer of God...
• When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- VOLTAIRE..
• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- Voltaire