A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

G.k. Chesterton
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  2. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. - George Orwell

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  4. I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. - Matt Groening

  5. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

More Quotes By G.k. Chesterton
  1. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

  2. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  3. Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

  4. The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  5. I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in...

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