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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (804 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Gilbert K. Chesterton, in [category] Art and Literature

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (210 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

[aphorist] Gilbert K. Chesterton, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (238 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

[aphorist] Gilbert K. Chesterton, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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