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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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 are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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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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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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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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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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