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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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