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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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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
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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.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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