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Author: G.K. Chesterton
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  1. G.K. Chesterton _ Geoffrey Chaucer

    Perhaps I might put up my notice of warning, and warn the reader not to read the second chapter. Now I come to think of it, I might warn him not to read the book at all.
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  2. G.K. Chesterton _ George Bernard Shaw

    No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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  3. G.K. Chesterton _ The Club of Queer Trades

    What is the modern mind?" asked Grant."Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within."
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  4. G.K. Chesterton _ Orthodoxy

    If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive."
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  5. G.K. Chesterton _ The Man Who Was Thursday: A

    That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
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  6. G.K. Chesterton _ Tremendous Trifles

    Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.
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  7. G.K. Chesterton _ The Everlasting Man

    Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions."
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