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"Of all of GK's "collected works", this is the least difficult to read, for a great part of the essays is about his trip around Europe. The difference between the foreign countries was obvious enough to draw simple, amusing philosophic conclusions. The book is also a window to GK's favorite things:
-The winter season
-Railway stations
-FRANCE, French history (warts and all)
-travelling (in order to come home)" — Sep 24, 2016 08:48AM
"Of all of GK's "collected works", this is the least difficult to read, for a great part of the essays is about his trip around Europe. The difference between the foreign countries was obvious enough to draw simple, amusing philosophic conclusions. The book is also a window to GK's favorite things:
-The winter season
-Railway stations
-FRANCE, French history (warts and all)
-travelling (in order to come home)" — Sep 24, 2016 08:48AM
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"Don't be fooled by the title of this book. I ignored this book because I thought it's just all kinds of pretty anecdotes regarding St. Francis. The first quarter of this book relies heavily on the MEDIEVAL background of St. Francis Assisi that you would think you're reading a history book" — Feb 29, 2020 05:26AM
"Don't be fooled by the title of this book. I ignored this book because I thought it's just all kinds of pretty anecdotes regarding St. Francis. The first quarter of this book relies heavily on the MEDIEVAL background of St. Francis Assisi that you would think you're reading a history book" — Feb 29, 2020 05:26AM
There is something of a harmony between the hearth and the firelight and my own first pleasure in his words about the brother fire;
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
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“Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.”
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“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.”
― The Napoleon of Notting Hill
― The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
― Complete Stories and Poems
― Complete Stories and Poems
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