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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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