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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs and also so clever that they can manage each other's.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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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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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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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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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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