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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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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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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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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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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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