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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.
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