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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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 sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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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 voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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