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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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