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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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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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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.
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