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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
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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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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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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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
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Humility is the mother of giants.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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