Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things But to unlearn things.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Poets do not go mad but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness or so good as drink.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
John Grubby, who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit upon the curate's knee.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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