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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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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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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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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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Art is the signature of man.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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