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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." -
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GK Chesterton
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Top 5 quotes from GK Chesterton
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline."
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
"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."
Top 5 quotes from Reading
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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