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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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Atheism is too theological.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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