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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.
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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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