English - Writer | May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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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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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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The only defensible war is a war of defense.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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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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