Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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It is assumed that the sceptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of scepticism.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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