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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
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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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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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