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G. K. Chesterton -
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
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He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists. His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Born:
May 29, 1874
Died:
June 14, 1936
(aged 62)
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