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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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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open but it is only one kind of affection it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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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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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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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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