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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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 simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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