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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
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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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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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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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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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