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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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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 big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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