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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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