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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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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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