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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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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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