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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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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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