The discovery of this strangesociety was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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This quote is just one of 51 total G. K. Chesterton quotes in our collection. G. K. Chesterton is known for saying 'The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.' as well as some of the following quotes.
A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
This quote is just one of 51 total G. K. Chesterton quotes in our collection. G. K. Chesterton is known for saying 'The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.' as well as some of the following quotes.