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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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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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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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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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