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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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