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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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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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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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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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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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