Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

—G. K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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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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