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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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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity for the world denied Christ's.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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