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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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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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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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The true object of human life is play.
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