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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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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The only object of liberty is life.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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