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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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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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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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