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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
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 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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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