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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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