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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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