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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
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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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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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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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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