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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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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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