Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.
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We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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