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Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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In old age, science is for us a comfortable refuge; and if we do not plant it when we are young, it will not give us shade when we are old.

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Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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Treating others as one would like to be treated is the safest way to please that I know.

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Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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If we do not plant the tree of wisdom when we are young, it will not be able to lend us its shade in old age.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The adventure may be crazy, but the adventurer must be sane.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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In everything worth having, even in pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be endured for pleasure to revive and endure.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The optimist believes in others, and the pessimist only believes in himself.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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We admire things for reasons, but we love them without reasons.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Are you a demon? I am a man. And therefore I have within me all the demons.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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All educators are absolutely dogmatic and authoritarian. There can be no free education, because if you leave a child free, you will not educate them.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Journalism essentially consists of saying 'lord Jones has died' to people who didn't know that lord Jones was alive.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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It has always been believed that there is something called destiny, but it has also always been believed that there is another thing called free will. What qualifies a man is the balance of that contradiction.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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If something is truly worth doing, it's worth doing at all costs.

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