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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.
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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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
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