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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, Life is not worth living. We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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