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Quotes from Alarms and Discursions — G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 England

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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Alarms and Discursions (1910)

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

Alarms and Discursions (1910)

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