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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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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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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
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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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When everyone knows that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
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