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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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