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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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