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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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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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