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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Humility is the mother of giants.
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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex they can breed thoughts.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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