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The Allahakbarries, J.M. Barrie's all-star cricket team.

Joseph Thomson, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton and Jerome K. Jerome, all played for the Allahakbarries.

"The more accomplished a man was at writing, the worse he played."

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2023-03-26

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere”. G.K. Chesterton

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2023-03-22

It's not even a criticism. My own books aren't that deep either. The Time Ghost isn't locked behind Chesterton's Fence in my latest book because it's a scathing critique of modernity. The Time Ghost is locked behind Chesterton's Fence because it made me giggle.

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2023-02-26

Quote Origin: A house without books is like a body without a soul

Marcus Tullius Cicero? G. K. Chesterton? Henry Ward Beecher? Mrs. Ashton Yates? William Forsyth? William Lucas Collins? Apocryphal?

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2023-02-24

...and that's why we don't touch Chesterton's Fence. https://t.co/DMADGfcJkC

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2023-01-17

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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2022-10-08

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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2022-10-08

“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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2022-09-27

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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2022-09-27

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead.
― G. K. Chesterton

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2022-09-27

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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2022-09-27

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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2022-09-27

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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2022-09-27

"A true warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
- G.K. Chesterton.
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Good morning
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2022-08-30

Part 2 of William Hartnell in the RTD era! Inspired by

The End of the World
Starring William Hartnell as Dr. Who
William Russell as Ian Chesterton
Guest starring Hevon Carvic as the voice of Morpho

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2022-07-19

¡Acaba de editarse!

“El Hombre que fue jueves” de G. K. Chesterton (Y una Vaca Editorial, Mendoza 2022)
*Ilustrado por Andrés Casciani

Podés conseguirlo en https://t.co/iGsWwBbpJZ

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2022-07-09

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton, who died in 1936
(art by Shaun Tan)

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2022-06-15

The show is in production, and they've started teasing a few new and updated designs! One of which is my take on lovable bookwork adventurer Oskar N Reteep! (based not a little on GK Chesterton) :D

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2022-06-09

Las verdades se convierten en dogmas desde el momento en que comienzan a ser discutidas
-Gilbert keith Chesterton- ... Samy Charnine

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2022-06-05