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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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