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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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