Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born on 29 May 1874 at Campden Hill in Kensington, London, into a comfortable middle-class household whose mixture of security, imagination, and mild religious seriousness helped to form one of the most exuberant literary personalities of the twentieth century. He died on 14 June 1936 at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, after a career that made him internationally recognizable as an essayis…
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
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Ivan Andreyevich Krylov, born on 13 February 1769 and dead on 21 November 1844, occupies a singular place in Russian literature: he is at once a classic author taught to children, a master satirist quoted by politicians and journalists, and a poet whose compact animal tales preserve an unusually sharp view of human weakness. To call him merely “the Russian Aesop,” as generations of readers have done, is useful but in…
“Friendship, then, should rest on the strongest foundation: respect, strengthened by knowledge of another's worth, a foundation that cannot be shaken.”
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