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All ceremony depends on symbol; and all symbols have been vulgarized and made stale by the commercial conditions of our — G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock — but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.
A man cannot deserve adventures — he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
The pure modernist is merely a snob — he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt — they are forbidden to believe.
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong — we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.
{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule — rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.