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G. K. Chesterton
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to G. K. Chesterton?
→ Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
→ There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
→ In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn.
→ There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
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Pick the quote attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
→ My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
→ It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
→ In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
→ People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Select the quotation attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
→ Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
→ Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
→ All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
→ Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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One of these may be attributed to G. K. Chesterton. Which one?
→ No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
→ Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
→ The time is always right to do what is right.
→ To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Which one of these belongs to G. K. Chesterton?
→ We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
→ I invent nothing, I rediscover.
→ To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
→ I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way - things that I had no words for.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to G. K. Chesterton?
→ When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
→ The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
→ Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
→ It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
→ Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
→ It is always the secure who are humble.
→ The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
→ We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
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One of the following quotations belongs to G. K. Chesterton. Which one?
→ Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
→ Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
→ Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
→ Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to G. K. Chesterton?
→ Calculation never made a hero.
→ Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
→ The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
→ People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
→ We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
→ The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
→ One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
→ There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
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Looks like G. K. Chesterton is the author of one of these.
→ When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
→ The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
→ Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
→ It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to G. K. Chesterton.
→ Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
→ We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
→ It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
→ Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Which one should be attributed to G. K. Chesterton?
→ The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
→ Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
→ A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
→ A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to G. K. Chesterton?
→ The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
→ The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
→ The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
→ Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Select the quote belonging to G. K. Chesterton.
→ If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
→ A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
→ There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
→ The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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Choose which quotation belongs to G. K. Chesterton.
→ The simplification of anything is always sensational.
→ One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
→ A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.
→ A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to G. K. Chesterton.
→ It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak.
→ A yawn is a silent shout.
→ Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
→ Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
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Identify the quotation belonging to G. K. Chesterton?
→ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
→ We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
→ The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
→ There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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One of the following quotes belongs to G. K. Chesterton. Pick one.
→ Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
→ The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
→ Keep a diary and some day, perhaps, your diary will keep you.
→ Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to G. K. Chesterton.
→ Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
→ Comparison is the thief of joy.
→ The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
→ The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to G. K. Chesterton?
→ The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
→ Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
→ A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
→ It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Pick the quote attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
→ The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
→ Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
→ People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
→ Even a lie is a psychic fact.
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Select the quotation attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
→ The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
→ The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
→ The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
→ The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
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