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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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