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Art is the signature of man.
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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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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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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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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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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