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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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