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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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 still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
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There is a case for telling the truth there is a case for avoiding the scandal but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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