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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
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 martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
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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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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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