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“History never repeats itself; man always does.” It
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
the truth that, while it is very rare indeed in the world to find a thoroughly good man, it is rarer still, rare to the point of monstrosity, to find a man who does not either desire to be one, or imagine that he is one already.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Men are very much too ready to speak of men’s work being ordinary, when we consider that, properly considered, every man is extraordinary.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
It is precisely those who have been conservative about the family who have been revolutionary about the state.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Men merely finding themselves free found themselves free to dispute the value of freedom.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The most important man on earth is the perfect man who is not there.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
He who is only a traveller learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“Nothing in life is of any value except the attempt to be virtuous,”