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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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