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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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