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  It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." -- G. K. Chesterto...
• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals.
  The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong....
• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936), "Folly and Female Educatio...
• Coincidences are spiritual puns. -- G. K. Chesterto
• 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.
  -- G. K. Chesterto...
• Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything
  it is he that gets the most out of life. -- G. K. Chesterto...
• Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)