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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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