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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

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G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton
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Born: May 29, 1874
Died: June 14, 1936 (aged 62)
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