K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
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The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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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.
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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The road from heaven to Hereford / Where the apple wood of Hereford / Goes all the way to Wales.
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And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet.
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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.
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Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.
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My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.
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We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.