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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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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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