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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.

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.

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.

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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There is something that gives splendor to everything that exists, and it is the illusion of finding something around the corner.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Mediocrity, possibly, consists of being in front of greatness and not realizing it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, and aristocracy means government by the poorly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Those who speak against the family do not know what they do, because they do not know what they undo.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Maturity makes a man more of a spectator than an author of social life.