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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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