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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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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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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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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.
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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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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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