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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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