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The three men on the right of this image are J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. Dressed as cowboys. My life is now complete
I didn’t even realise that GK Chesterton looked so much like Fiddler’s Green (Gilbert) in Sandman. It’s so intentional… wow.
I wish the Sandman fandom paid more attention to Gilbert - I really like him.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. Chesterton (via dreamdrops)(via thekitchenknight)
Posted on June 22, 2011 via I need a compass draw me a map with 7 notes
Source: dreamdrops
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
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