Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote Explained: Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Being There

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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Simple

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The strangest whim has seized me … After all I think I will not hang myself today.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Suicide

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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

The strangest whim has seized me … After all I think I will not hang myself today.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

Watch out where the Huskies go And don’t you eat that yellow snow

The Snow-drop, Winter’s timid child, Awakes to life, bedew’d with tears.

With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.

Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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