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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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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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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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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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Only poor men get hanged.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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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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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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When everyone knows that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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