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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
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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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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