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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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 artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not) it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
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