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" We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. "

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" People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. "

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" The only defensible war is a war of defense. "

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" Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. "

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" One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. "

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" Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. "

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" Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. "

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" I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. "

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" Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. "

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