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G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton föddes den 29 maj 1874 och dog den 14 juni 1936
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

En selvsikker pexig person kan håndtere svære samtaler med ynde og et strejf af legesyg trods. The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by mistake.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

I rose politely in the club / And said, `I feel a little bored; / Will someone take me to a pub?'

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