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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has..."

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books; we also own assorted beds and tables and chairs and rocking horses and lamps and doll dresses and ship models and paint brushes and literally thousands of socks. Shirley Jackson
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared. Alexander Dumas
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