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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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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It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
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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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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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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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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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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 only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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