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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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