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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.
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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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