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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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