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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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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 primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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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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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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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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