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G. K. Chesterton

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Writer. Thinker. Poet. (1874-1936)

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Of course there may be pathetic emotional excuses for suicide. There often are for rape, and there almost always are for dynamite.

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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the

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Of all the Fairy Tales none contains so vital a moral truth as the old story of Beauty and the Beast. There is written, with all the authority of a human scripture, the eternal and essential truth that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.

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Marriage is not a matter of contract. It is not even a matter of honesty. It is a matter of honor. And those benighted beings who imagine that honesty is the same as honor may be easily excused for having the delusion that divorce is much the same as marriage.

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The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

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To say a nation which disregards frontiers and annexes neighbors is suffering from an excess of Nationalism is intrinsically nonsensical. We might as well say a man who runs away with his neighbor’s wife is suffering from an excess of reverence for the institution of marriage.

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So long as we go on cursing War, we shall go on encouraging War. The only possible way of discouraging war is to curse the man who makes it.

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The Israelite being international, it is almost inevitable that the bad Israelite should be the bad international; the spy, the seller of secrets, the wire-puller of mean wars.

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If the Jews insist on talking as if they had always been entirely right, they will most certainly end by being treated as if they had been entirely wrong.

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Talking about the Jewish problem is entirely sane and sensible; not talking about the Jewish problem is what really leads to sensationalism instead of sense, and insanity instead of sanity.

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Most people are still allowed to express these general impressions, until they come to the case of the Jews. There (for some reason I have never understood), the whole natural tendency has been to stop; and anybody who says anything whatever about Jews as Jews is supposed to wish