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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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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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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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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