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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 aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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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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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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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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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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