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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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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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Surprise is the secret of joy.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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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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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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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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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.
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