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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 world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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There is a case for telling the truth there is a case for avoiding the scandal but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
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When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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