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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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