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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
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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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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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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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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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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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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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