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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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