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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.

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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.

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When it comes to healthy eating, people who know how to cook and make ingredients taste good have a distinct advantage over those who can't.

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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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