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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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 power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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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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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not) it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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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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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.
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