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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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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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