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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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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The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree the poetry of love in following the single woman the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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