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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Category: Adversity Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.
Category: Art Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Category: Beauty Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see that the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further and still find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong.
Category: Humankind Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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It is always the secure who are humble.
Category: Humility Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
Category: Perspective Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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