Chesterton watched while insular nations were being forced into an international conversation. His insights should be read and discussed by all nations, now more than ever. Quotes are exclusively from his work. The numbers following the quote indicate the volume number and page from his collected works.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
1915 France and Germany
And the deep and real irritation which people so different as the French, the Poles, and the Serbians feel against the Germans is largely the irritation against this underbred cleverness. It is the anger of a people that have had tragedies against a people that has never had anything but melodramas. xxx 273
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