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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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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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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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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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