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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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