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Journalist, Poet, Erzähler, kreierte die Detektivrolle "Pater Brown" (England, 1874 - 1936).

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton wäre heute 150 Jahre, 10 Monate, 5 Tage oder 55.096 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.05.1874 in Kensington/London
Gestorben am 14.06.1936 in Beaconsfield/London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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• The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil - and especially of evil in high places.

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• The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

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• The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

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• The prime truth of woman, the universal mother . . . that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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• The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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

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• The thing on the blind side of the heart, On the wrong side of the door, The green plant groweth, menacing Almighty lovers in the Spring; There is always a forgotten thing, And love is not secure.

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• The trouble about always trying to perserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do so without destroying the health of the mind.

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as foreign land.

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• There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

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• There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

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• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right: It is the ideal American who is all wrong.

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• They died to save their country and they only saved the world.

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• They haven't got no noses, The fallen sons of Eve.

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• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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• To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

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