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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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