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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Humility is the mother of giants.
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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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