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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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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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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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