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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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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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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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