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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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 aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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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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