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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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Only poor men get hanged.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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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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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The moderns do not realize modernity.
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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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