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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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