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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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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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Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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