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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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