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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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 golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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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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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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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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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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