Orthodoxy - 9781544660592

Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it. The publisher said of somebody, "That man will get on; he believes in himself." And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written "Hanwell.

• • Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 16, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 146 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1544660596
• • ISBN-13: 9781544660592