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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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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
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