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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open but it is only one kind of affection it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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