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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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