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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. 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.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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