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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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