Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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• Gilbert K. Chesterton:

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  Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of rea

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  No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for ed

• Gilbert K. Chesterton:

  Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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  I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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  There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

• Gilbert K. Chesterton:

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