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1 " But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty. "
― G.K. Chesterton , Alarms and Discursions
2 " It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. "