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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.

-G. K. Chesterton

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The thing from which we suffer just now more than any other evil is not the assertion of falsehoods, but the endless and irrepressible repetition of half-truths.

-G. K. Chesterton

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

-G K Chesterton

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Tradition means giving a vote to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.

- G. K. Chesterton

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"He is a sane man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head."

– G.K. Chesterton

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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. Chesterton

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"The heretic has locked himself in the clean, well-lit prison of one idea."

- G. K. Chesterton

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"We grow conservative as we grow old, it is true. But we do not grow conservative because we find so many new things spurious. We grow conservative because we find so many old things genuine."

— G. K. Chesterton

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"Liberty is traditional and conservative; it remembers its legends and its heroes. But tyranny is always young and seemingly innocent, and asks us to forget the past."

— G. K. Chesterton

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"The average woman is a despot. The average man is a serf."

— G. K. Chesterton

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

-G. K. Chesterton

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"What we call the new ideas are generally broken fragments of the old ideas."

— G. K. Chesterton

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"If you ask me to extend my sympathy to the poor fox, pursued by savage sportsmen, shall I not also extend it to the poor sportsman, pursued by savage humanitarians?"

— G. K. Chesterton

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“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”

-G. K. Chesterton

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

-G. K. Chesterton

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"America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed."

- G. K. Chesterton

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"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions"

-G.K. Chesterton