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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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 great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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