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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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