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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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 true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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