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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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Art is the signature of man.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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