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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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