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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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