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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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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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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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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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