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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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 trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
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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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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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