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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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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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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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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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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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