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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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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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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
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