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Gilbert K. Chesterton · Art

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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