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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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