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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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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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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
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In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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