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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
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