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Buster Foghorn on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:23:51 AM
Timeless Truths
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. - A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901
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October Is Chesterton Month For Daily Quotes: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) is a three-story intellect* whose “…best illuminations come from above through the skylight.”
* Who are three story thinkers? Oliver Wendell Holmes provided the idea for this series of daily blogs in a quote believed to be from a short story called: “The Three Story House.”
“There are one-story intellects, two story intellects, and three story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer, physician