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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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