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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
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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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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