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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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 only object of liberty is life.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
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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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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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