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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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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The only object of liberty is life.
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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.
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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