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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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