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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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