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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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 aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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