Second-Hand Book Market in Lucca, Italy
Today's quotes are very G.K. Chesterton-heavy. He's a very clever and quotable writer, after all. I've been reading a lot this week, taking advantage of breezy sunny weather in our newly-acquired hammock. It's almost time to start making schedules for the new school year, so I really wanted to enjoy the feeling of summer vacation. I'm happy to report I managed it this week.
"A man writes much better than he lives."
- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
"The important thing about France and England is not that they have Roman remains. They are Roman remains."
- A Short History of England, G.K. Chesterton
"It is sometimes valuable to have enough imagination to unlearn as well as to learn."
- A Short History of England, G.K. Chesterton
"If a man has a right to vote, has he not a right to vote wrong? If a man has a right to choose his wife, has he not a right to choose wrong? I have a right to express the opinion which I am now setting down; but I should hesitate to make the controversial claim that this proves the opinion to be right."
- A Short History of England, G.K. Chesterton
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
- A Short History of England, G.K. Chesterton
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