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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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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 more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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