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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is that when a man's body is a wreck he begins, for the first time, to talk about health. Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

 
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Clowntime is over
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.

 
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In this country all a man need to do is to attain a little eminence and immediately he begins to talk.

 
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