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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
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 with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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