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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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