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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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