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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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The true object of human life is play.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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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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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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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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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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