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" Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. "

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" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "

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" We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. "

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" White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. "

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" What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. "

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" Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. "

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" Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. "

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" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "

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" We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. "

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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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" One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. "

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

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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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" And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. "

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" New roads; new ruts. "

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" Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. "

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" If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. "

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" Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. "

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" Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. "

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" There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. "

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" The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. "

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" The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. "

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" Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. "

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" People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. "

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" A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. "

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" If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. "

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" The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. "

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