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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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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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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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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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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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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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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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