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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying 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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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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