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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
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If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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