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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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