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Chesterton

American

[ches-ter-tuhn] / ˈtʃɛs tər tən /

noun

G(ilbert) K(eith), 1874–1936, English essayist, critic, and novelist.

Chesterton British

/ ˈtʃɛstətən /

noun

G ( ilbert ) K ( eith ). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic

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Chesterton observed, you can’t know which fences to remove until you understand why they were built.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Soldiers fight, Chesterton says, because their cause is bound up with their affections for their family and fealty to their God.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Chesterton took a different tack—gratitude is “the highest form of thought.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Mrs Chesterton told the BBC: "To lose a child is so very painful. It is not the right order of this world."

From BBC • May 14, 2025

It feels less Darwinian than Swiftian; it calls to mind a long-ago dart attributed to G. K. Chesterton: when there aren’t enough hats to go around, the problem isn’t solved by lopping off some heads.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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