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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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 conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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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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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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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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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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