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Phrases Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
- Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On…
- They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever…
- There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
- Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.…
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