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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

- G.K. Chesterton

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"The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly."

-G.K. Chesterton

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It has been the great tragedy of our time that people were taught to read and not taught to reason.

- G.K. Chesterton

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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

― G.K. Chesterton

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The modern world is too frightened of tyrants to denounce them as tyrants, and too slavish to say much about slavery.

-G.K. Chesterton

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"It is a platitude, and none the less true for that, that we need to have an ideal in our minds with which to test all realities. But it is equally true, and less noted, that we need a reality with which to test ideals."

-G.K. Chesterton

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"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog."

-G.K. Chesterton

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"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober."

-G.K. Chesterton

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"The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden."

-G.K. Chesterton