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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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 hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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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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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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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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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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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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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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Fairy tales are more than true.
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