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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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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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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
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