Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONCIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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