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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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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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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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