Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Clever Quotes, Tasks Quotes

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

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From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

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Do I dare disturb the universe?

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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