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“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton · Experience

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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