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Being Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
- Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
- Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If…
- 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…
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