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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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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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When everyone knows that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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