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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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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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Plato was right, but not quite right.
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