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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
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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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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