G. K.  CHESTERTON 

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. [Letters to His Son 1746]

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G. K. Chesterton

If we are without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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