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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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