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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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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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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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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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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Surprise is the secret of joy.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
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