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I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Profession: Author
Nationality: British

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the terrible and tingling atmosphere of something which is too good to be told.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the ‘lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

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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He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.

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