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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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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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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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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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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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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