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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy 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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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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