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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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