“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”

Twelve Types (1903) Charles II

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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