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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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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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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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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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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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Plato was right, but not quite right.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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