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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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