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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
         

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.


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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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