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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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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 average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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