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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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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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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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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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