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Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith). Born May 29, 1874, London, England. Died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. A British man of letters. Chesterton was a journalist, a scholar, a novelist and short-story writer, and a poet. His works of social and literary criticism include Robert Browning (1903), Charles Dickens (1906), and The Victorian Age in Literature (1913). Even before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922, he was interested in theology and religious argument. His fiction includes The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), the popular allegorical novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), and his most successful creation, the series of detective novels featuring the priest-sleuth Father Brown. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

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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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"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."

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"It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam."

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"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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