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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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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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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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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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