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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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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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 humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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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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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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