Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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If we do not plant the tree of wisdom when we are young, it will not be able to lend us its shade in old age.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The adventure may be crazy, but the adventurer must be sane.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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In everything worth having, even in pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be endured for pleasure to revive and endure.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The optimist believes in others, and the pessimist only believes in himself.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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We admire things for reasons, but we love them without reasons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Are you a demon? I am a man. And therefore I have within me all the demons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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All educators are absolutely dogmatic and authoritarian. There can be no free education, because if you leave a child free, you will not educate them.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Live fiercely, fear nothing, and triumph will smile upon you.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Democracy is the worst form of government devised by man. Except for all the others.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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War is an invention of the human mind; and the human mind can also invent peace.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The same thing happens with the spirit as with the stomach: only that which it can digest can be entrusted to it.