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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
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