When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

English - Writer May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

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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.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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