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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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The only object of liberty is life.
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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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