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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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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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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.
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There is a case for telling the truth there is a case for avoiding the scandal but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, Life is not worth living. We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
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