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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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