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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

goblin brothers feat their mother (who is a retired bard)
throckmorton, sudworth, and chesterton are pirates and former bandits
walmsley stays home with their mama and helps her keep house because he's the youngest

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2023-02-08

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

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2023-01-17

“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

“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


“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

Art: “Dragon Slayer” Michael Bay

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2022-08-30

"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

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

“We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.” ― G.K. Chesterton
(Art by Warwick Goble)

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2022-05-24

"Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them."

G.K. Chesterton

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2022-04-14

"Hay algo que da esplendor a cuanto existe, y es la ilusión de encontrar algo a la vuelta de la esquina". (G. K. Chesterton)

🎨 https://t.co/OP6oqDMVGb

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2022-03-11

"In the days when Dickens's work was coming out in serial, people talked about it as if real life were itself the interlude between one issue of 'Pickwick' and another."
~G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, The Last of the Great Men


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2022-03-07

In ‘Heretics’, published in 1905, theologian and poet G K Chesterton argues that where we seek praise of strongmen in the annals of war literature, we invariably find only tales that reaffirm the superiority of the small in stature and minority in number.

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2022-02-17