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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.
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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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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