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English author, critic, journalist, and mystery novelist
created character Father Brown
wrote novels "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" 1904, "The Innocence of Father Brown" 1911
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- "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
- "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
- "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
- "The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
- "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
