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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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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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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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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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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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