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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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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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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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Atheism is too theological.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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