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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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The true object of human life is play.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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