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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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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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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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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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