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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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