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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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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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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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You can't have the family farm without the family.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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