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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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