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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
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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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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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