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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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