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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
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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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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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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It is the decisive people who have become civilised it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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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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