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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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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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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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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