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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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 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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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Surprise is the secret of joy.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
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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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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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