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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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