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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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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
