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• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936), "The Hammer of God...
• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
  An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• A yawn is a silent shout. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• 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)...
• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936), "Heretic...
• To downgrade the human mind is bad theology. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• The villa's and the chapel's where I learned with little labor The way to love my fellow man And hate my next-door neighbor.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterto...