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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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