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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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 more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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