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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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 new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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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 a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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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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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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