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G K Chesterton

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction.


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Quote Left A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it. Quote Right
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Quote Left If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Quote Right
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Quote Left There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. Quote Right
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Quote Left Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Quote Right
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Quote Left My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober. Quote Right
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