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" A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. "

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" The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. "

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