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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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Atheism is too theological.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
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