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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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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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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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