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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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