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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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 real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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God is not a symbol of goodness goodness is a symbol of God
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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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