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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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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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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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