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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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