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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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 world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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Atheism is too theological.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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You can't have the family farm without the family.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Plato was right, but not quite right.
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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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Surprise is the secret of joy.
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