Have been in the middle of Chesterton biography, some quotes:
"...A sage feels too small for life, And a fool too large for it."
"But there are four lamps of thanksgiving always before him. Thefirst is for his creation out of the same earth with such a woman asyou. The second is that he has not, with all his faults, 'gone afterstrange women.' You cannot think how a man's self-restraint isrewarded in this. The third is that he has tried to love everythingalive: a dim preparation for loving you. And the fourth is--but nowords can express that. Here ends my previous existence. Take it: itled me to you."
-To his wife, Frances
"A man's friends like him but they leave him as he is. A man's wifeloves him and is always trying to change him."
"You can always tell the real love from the slight by thefact that the latter weakens at the moment of success; the former is quadrupled."
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