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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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 thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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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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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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