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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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It is the decisive people who have become civilised it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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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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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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