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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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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal and it is right for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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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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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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Government has become ungovernable that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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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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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
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