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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
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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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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You can't have the family farm without the family.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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