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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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 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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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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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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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
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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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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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