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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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