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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
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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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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