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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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Government has become ungovernable that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he that gets the most out of life.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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