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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
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