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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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