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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one."

Thinking Real Hero
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything."

Mean Real Talking
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude."

Men Real Ignorance
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth."

Real Science Doctors
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed."

Real Hate Philosophy
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy."

Men Real Character
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing."

Real Fun Adventure
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism."

People Real Respect
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else."

Real Science Philosophy
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire."

Real Inspiration Faith
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature."

Men Real Law
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot."

Men Real Vices
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Goldwin Smith Historian, Writer
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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."

Real Civilization India
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world."

Real Country New York
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country."

Real Country Clever
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Graham Swift Author
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"And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it."

Real Knows Illusion
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