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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There is a case for telling the truth there is a case for avoiding the scandal but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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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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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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