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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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