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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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 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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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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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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