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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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