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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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