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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Born: 1874-05-29
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 1936-06-14
Location of Death: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
Field: Author, Critic
Info: The Man Who Was Thursday

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Ten thousand women marched through the streets of London saying 'we will not be dictated to,' and then went off to become stenographers.

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  1. A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a li ...
  2. A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; b ...
  3. All government is an ugly necessity. ...
  4. Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ...
  5. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful par ...
  6. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line s ...
  7. For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, a ...
  8. Half a truth is better than no politics. ...
  9. I believe in getting into hot water. I think it ke ...
  10. I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbl ...
  11. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly ...
  12. If there were no God, there would be no atheists. ...
  13. It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians ...
  14. Let your religion be less of a theory and more of ...
  15. Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and su ...
  16. Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisat ...
  17. Men do not differ much about what things they will ...
  18. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, ...
  19. No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunken ...
  20. People generally quarrel because they cannot argue ...
  21. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject ...
  22. Ten thousand women marched through the streets of ...
  23. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also ...
  24. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found w ...
  25. The way to love anything is to realize that it may ...
  26. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in ...
  27. Thieves respect property; they merely wish the pro ...
  28. To be clever enough to get all the money, one must ...
  29. To have a right to do a thing is not at all the sa ...
  30. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure o ...
  31. Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too ofte ...
  32. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God ...
  33. When a politician is in opposition he is an expert ...
  34. When learned men begin to use their reason, then I ...
  35. You can only find truth with logic if you have alr ...
  36. You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion. ...

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