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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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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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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
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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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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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