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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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