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Heretics quotes

G. K. Chesterton

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“The strong cannot be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world that we have not made.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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