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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed 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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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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