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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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 professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs and also so clever that they can manage each other's.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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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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