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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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