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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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 vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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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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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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