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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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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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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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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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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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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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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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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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