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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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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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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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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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