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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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