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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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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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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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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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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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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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