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Generations Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
- Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
- We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
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