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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
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 did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
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