Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

G. K. Chesterton
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  1. Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

  2. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  3. Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

  4. The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

  5. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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