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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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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
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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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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open but it is only one kind of affection it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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