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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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