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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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. . . For friendship implies individuality whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two but comrades are the better for being two million.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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