Quote by G.K. Chesterton
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of sele

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. – G.K. Chesterton

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Rainbows
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G.K. Chesterton

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Leadership
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

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Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. – Anatole France

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. – Juvenal, Satires

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I was supposed to be womens lib, and now Id exceeded it and gone over into international politics. – Kate Millett

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New technology is useful, but its inefficient and ugly it knows itll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. – Tom Holt

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