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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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