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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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Humility is the mother of giants.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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