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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
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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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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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