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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 best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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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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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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You can't have the family farm without the family.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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Atheism is too theological.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
