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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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