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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

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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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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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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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Only poor men get hanged.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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