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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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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For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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