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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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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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