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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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