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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity for the world denied Christ's.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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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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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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