English - Writer | May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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