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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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 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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
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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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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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