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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
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