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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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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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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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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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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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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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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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