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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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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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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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