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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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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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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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