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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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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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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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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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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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