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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Bath Believe Practice
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country People Regard Riddle
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apologetic Arguing Men
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Modern Silence Tyranny
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country Earth Rich Scum
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Animal Sacrifice Worship
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle

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