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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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