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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 more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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