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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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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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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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