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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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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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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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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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