Gilbert Keith Chesterton
1874-1936. British journalist, scholar, novelist and short-story writer, and poet.
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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.
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Tradition means giving votes 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 around.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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