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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he that gets the most out of life.
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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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