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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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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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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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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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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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