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No man can be merry unless he is serious.
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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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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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
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