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““There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.””

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…

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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to…

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his…

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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