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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
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Government has become ungovernable that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
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