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

—  G. K. Chesterton

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986), p. 71

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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