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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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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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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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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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When everyone knows that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
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