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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open but it is only one kind of affection it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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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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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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