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" A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "
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" When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? "
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" The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. "
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" White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. "
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