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LATEST ADDITIONS TOSBSAMB BOOKLETS41. Rab and his Friends. Brown.42. Marjorie Fleming. Brown.43. Poems of the East.44. Gems from Balzac.45. Thoughts from Tolstoi.46. Thoughts from Jerome K. Jerome.47. Thoughts from H. G. Wells.48. Thoughts from E. F. Benson.49. Thoughts from Augustine Birrell.50 Thoughts from G. K. Chesterton.


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THE Compiler offers her cordial thanks to MrG. K. Chesterton and to the following Pub-lishers for permission to print extracts from thebooks named : M-ssrs J. W. ArrowsmithLtd. for The Man who was Thursday \ Messrs("J. Bell & Sons Ltd. for Introduction to" Thackeray" ; Messrs Cassell & Co. Ltd. forWhat's Wrong with tJie ll'orld; Messrs J. M.Dent & Sons Ltd. for The Defendant andTJie Wild Knight', Messrs Duckworth &Co. for William Blake and G, F. Watts ;Messrs Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd. forThe Ball and the Cross ; Messrs Harper &lirothers and Messrs Hodder & Stoughtonfor A Club of Queer Trades ; Mr A. L.Humphreys for Twelve Types \ Mr John Lanefor Heretics, Orthodoxy and The Napoleonof Nottin^ Hill; Messrs Macmillnn & Co.I -td. for Robert Browning ; and Messrs Thos.Nelson & Sons for Ulanalwe.


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Thoughts from G. K.ChestertonTjlVERYONE on the earthJ_J should believe that hehas something to give to theworld which cannot otherwisebe given. Robert Browning

Comradeship is at the mostonly one half of human life ;the other half is love, a thingso different that one mightfancy it had been made foranother universe.Whafs Wrong with the World


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We are too fond nowadays ofcommitting the sin of fear andcalling it the virtue of reverence.The Defendant

Religious people speak ofworldlings as gay and careless :but such religious people paythe worldlings far too high acompliment. Introduction to ThackerayWhen society is in rather

a futile fuss about the sub-jection of women, will no onesay how much every man owesto the tyranny and privilegeof women, to the fact thatthey alone rule education untileducation becomes futile ? For


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a boy is only sent to be taughtat school when it is too lateto teach him anything. Thereal thing has been donealready, and, thank God, it isnearly always done by women.OrthodoxyWhen a man begins to think

that the grass will not growat night unless he lies awaketo watch it, he generally endseither in an asylum or on thethrone of an Emperor.RobertThe pride of a good mother

in the beauty of her daughteris one of those adamantinetendernesses which are the


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touchstones of every age andrace.

What's Wrong with the WorldNo one was ever in love

without indulging in a positivedebauch of humility. The DefendantIt is absurd to call a man

cynical whose object it is toshow that goodness, even whenit is silly, is a healthier thingthan wickedness when it issensible.

Introduction to Thackeray

Christianity is always out offashion because it is alwayssane ; and all fashions are mildinsanities. When Italy is mad


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on art the Church seems tooPuritanical ; when England ismad on Puritanism the Churchseems too artistic.

The Ball and the Cross

Love of humanity is thecommonest and most natural ofthe feelings of a fresh nature,and almost everyone has feltit alight capriciously upon himwhen looking at a crowdedpark or on a room full ofdancers.

Robert Browning

The way to lessen sorrowis to make a lot of it. Theway to endure a painful crisis


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is to insist very much that itis a crisis.

What's Wrong with the WorldThe moment we really be-

lieve in democracy, it willbegin to blossom, as aristocracyblossomed, into symbolic coloursand shapes. We shall nevermake anything of democracyuntil we make fools of our-selves. For if a man reallycannot make a fool of himselfwe may be quite certain thatthe effort is superfluous.The DefendantThe most dreadful and blood-

chilling thing in this world isa tired kindness.Introduction to Thackeray


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The Church always seemsto be behind the times, whenit is really beyond the times ;it is waiting till the last fadshall have seen its last summer.It keeps the key of a permanentvirtue.


The ridiculous theory thutmen should have no noblepassions or sentiments in publicmay have been designed tomake private life holy andundefiled, but it has had verylittle actual effect except tomake public life cynical andpreposterously unmeaning.Robert Browning


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The average man has to bea specialist ; he has not only tolearn one trade, but to learnit so well as to uphold himin a more or less ruthlesssociety. What's Wrong with the World

Humility is the luxuriousart of reducing ourselves toa point, not to a small thingor a large one, but to a thingwith no size at all, so that toit all the cosmic things arewhat they really are of im-measurable stature.

The DefendantCaricature is a serious thing ;

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serious. Caricature really meansmaking a pig more like a pigthan even God has made him.

William Blake

What is the difference be-tween Christ and Satan ? Itis quite simple. Christ de-scended into hell : Satan fellinto it. One of them wantedto go up and went down ; theother wanted to go down andwent up.

The Ball and the CrossSmoke, like the modern city

that makes it, is not alwaysdull or ugly, but it is alwayswicked and vain.

Manalive


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If prosperity is regarded asthe reward of virtue it will beregarded as the symptom ofvirtue.

Preface to the Book ofJob

Not only life, but every de-tail of life is most a pleasurewhen it is studied with thegloomiest intensity.

G. F. WattsThe world is not a lodginghouse at Brighton, which we

are to leave because it is miser-able. It is the fortress of ourfamily, with flag flying on theturret ; and the more miserableit is the less we should leaveit. The point is not that this


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world is too sad to love or tooglad not to love ; the point isthat when you do love a thingits gladness is a reason forloving it, and its sadness areason for loving it more.Orthodoxy

I talk of every man beingthe image of God; and youtalk of every man being acitizen, enlightened enough togovern. But if every mantypifies God, there is God. Ifevery man is an enlightenedcitizen, there is your en-lightened citizen. The firstman one meets is always man.Let us catch him up.TJu Ball attd the Cross


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Men flee from the embraceof a great optimist as from theembrace of a bear. Nothingbrings down more curses thana real benediction.

ManaliveThe riddles of God are more

satisfying than the solutions ofman.Preface to the Book ofJob

The new art gallery is toolike a museum of freaks, it istoo wild and wonderful, like arealistic novel.

G. F. Watts

Progress should mean thatwe are always walking towardsthe New Jerusalem. It does


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mean that the New Jerusalemis always walking away fromus. We are not altering thereal to suit the ideal. We arealtering the ideal : it is easier.

Orthodoxy

A man will not reacheloquence if he is afraid ofbombast, just as a man will notjump a hedge if he is afraidof a ditch.

Twelve Types

Babies are not always strongon the point of dignity, andgrown-up men are quite un-presentable.


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This belief, that all wouldgo right if we could only getthe strings into our own hands,is a fallacy almost without ex-ception, but nobody can justlysay that it is not public spirited.Robert BrowningYou need not strangle a man

if you can silence him. Thebranded shoulder is less effec-tive and final than the coldshoulder: and you need nottrouble to lock a man in whenyou can lock him out. -Whafs Wrong with the WorldThe fundamental modernfallacy is that the public lifemust be an artificial life. It is


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like saying that the publicstreet must be an artificial air.Men like all the great heroesonly breathe in public. Whatis the use of abusing a man forpublicity when he utters inpublic the true and the endur-ing things ? What is the use,above all, of prying into hissecrecy, when he has cried hisbest from the housetops ?G. F. Watts

Brevity may be the soul ofwit ; but it would be quite astrue to say in such cases thatlengthiness is the soul of satire.


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blow bad because it humiliates.You may come to think amurder wrong, because it isviolent and not because it isunjust. The Ball and the CrossA man's good work is

effected by doing what hedoes, a woman's by beingwhat she is.

Robert Browning

Education is violent ; becauseit is creative. It is creativebecause it is human. It is asruthless as playing on thefiddle ; as dogmatic as drawinga picture ; as brutal as buildinga In it is what


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all human action is : it is aninterference with life andgrowth. What's Wrong luith the World

Shutting out things is allvery well, but it has one simplecorollary that from everythingwe shut out, we are ourselvesshut out. The Defendant

Worldliness and the world-lings are in their nature solemnand timid. If you want care-lessness you must go to themartyrs. Introduction to ThackerayThe Cross cannot be de-

feated, for it is defeat.The Ball and Cross


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To anyone who thinks, thepleasures of life, trivial andsoon tasteless, are bribes tobring us into a torture chamber.ManalivtThe modern habit of saying"This is my opinion, but I

may be wrong" is entirelyirrational. If I say that it maybe wrong I say that it is notmy opinion.

Preface to the Book ofJobThe true task of culture to-

day is not a task of expansion,but very decidedly of selectionand rejection.Whafs Wrong with the WorldThe Free-thinker with


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his genuine ability does not inpractice destroy Christianity,what he does destroy is theFree-thinker who went before.

The Ball and the CrossA man can no more possess

a private religion than he canpossess a private sun or moon.

Preface to the Book ofJobThere is no fact of life from

the death of a donkey to theGeneral Post Office, which hasnot its place to dance and singin, in the glorious carnival oftheology. G. F. Watts

Truth must necessarily bethan fiction ; for


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fiction is the creation of thehuman mind and thereforecongenial to it.A Club ofQueer Trades

Seriousness is not a virtue.It would be a heresy, but amuch more sensible heresy, tosay that seriousness is a vice.It is really a natural trend orlapse into taking one's-selfgravely, because it is theeasiest

thingto do. It ismuch easier to write a goodTimes leading article, than a

good joke in Punch. Forsolemnity flows out of mennaturally, but laughter is a leap.It is easy to be heavy : hard to


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be light. Satan fell by theforce of gravity. OrthodoxyOne does not permit beauty

to pervade one's whole life,just as one does not pave allthe roads with ivory or coverall the fields with geraniums.Manalive

It is the idea that innocencehas about it something terriblewhich in the long run makesand remakes empires and theworld.

Preface to the Book oj Job

The back is the most awfuland mysterious thing in theuniverse : it is impossible to


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speak about it. It is the partof man that he knows nothingof; like an outlying provinceforgotten by an Emperor.G. F. Watts"Tommy was a good boy"

is a purely philosophical state-ment worthy of Plato orAquinas. "Tommy lived thehigher life" is a gross meta-phor from a ten-foot rule.

Orthodoxy

The thing from whichEngland suffers just now morethan from any other evil isnot the assertion of falsehoods,but the endless and irrepres-sible repetition of half truths.G. F. Watts


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With any recovery frommorbidity there must go acertain healthy humiliation.There comes a certain pointin such conditions when onlythree things are possible : firsta perpetuation of Satanic pride,secondly tears, and thirdlaughter. The Man w/io was Thursday

I never said a word againsteminent men of science. WhatI complain of is a vague popu-lar philosophy, which supposesitself to be scientific when it isreally nothing but a sort of newreligion and an uncommonlynasty one. When people


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talked about the Fall of Man,they knew they were talkingabout a mystery, a thing theydidn't understand. Now theytalk about the survival of thefittest : they think they dounderstand it, whereas theyhave not merely no notion,they have an elaborately falsenotion of what the words mean.A Club tfQueer Trades

Marriage is a stage doubt-less a suitable stage in thelong advance of mankind to-wards a goal which we cannotas yet conceive.

ManaliveEveryone on this earth should


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believe, amid whatever madnessand moral failure, that hislife and temperament havesome object on the earth.Robert Bro~


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sturdy descendants of theirsturdy Puritan fathers. As afact they would run away froma cow. If you asked one oftheir Puritan fathers, if youasked Bunyan, for instance,whether he was sturdy hewould have answered withtears that he was as weak aswater. And because of this hewould have borne tortures.

Heretics

Poetry can tell us whetherthe happiness is the happinessthat sends a man to a restaurant,or the much richer and fullerhappiness that sends him toChurch.

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Faith is always at a dis-advantage; it is a perpetuallydefeated thing which survivesall its conquerors.

C,. F. Watts

To batter the worldly castlewith the artillery of openderision is a much swifter taskthan to blow it up from withinwith one carefully constructedbomb of irony.Introduction to Thackeray

Every detail points to some-thing, certainly, but generallyto the wrong thing. Factspoint in all directions, it seemsto me, like the thousands of

on a tree. It is the


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life of a tree that has unity andgoes up only the green bloodthat springs, like a fountain, atthe stars. A Club ofQueer TradesFrom such books we can

discover what a clever man cando with the idea of aristocracy.But from The Family HeraldSupplement literature we canlearn what the idea of aristoc-racy can do with a man whois not clever. And when weknow that we know EnglishHistory. Heretics

It is always the humbleman who talks too much ; the


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proud man watches himself" tooclosely. The Man who was ThursdayA philosopher cannot talkabout any single thing down toa pumpkin, without showingwhether he is wise or foolish ;

but he can easily talk abouteverything without anyonehaving any views about himbeyond gloomy suspicions.G. F. WattsThe oldest thing in theuniverse is its energy.Introduction to ThackerayWe had talked for abouthalf an hour about politics and


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about the most important thingsto total strangers. It is be-cause in the total stranger weperceive man himself; theimage of God is not disguisedby resemblances to an uncle ordoubts of the wisdom of amOUStache. A Club ofQueer TradesHuman Nature simply cannotsubsist without a hope and aimof some kind; as the sanityof the Old Testament truly

said, where there is no visionthe people perisheth. But it isprecisely because an ideal isnecessary to a man that theman without ideals is in per-manent danger of fanaticism.Heretics


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What we want most is tobe lost : to find ourselves inuntrodden paths, and to dounprecedented things; to breakwith the past and belong to thefuture.

The rare strange thing is tohit the mark

; the gross obviousthing is to miss it.The Man who was ThursdayThere is, as a ruling element

in modern life, in all life, thisblind and asinine appetite formere power.G, F. ll'af/s

It is one of the simplest andsilliest of the modern mistakes


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to connect the word "old"with the word "stale "or theword " weary."Introduction to ThackerayThe evil of aristocracy is notthat it leads to the infliction of

bad things or the suffering ofsad ones ; the evil of aristocracyis that it places everything inthe hands of a class of peoplewho can always- inflict whatthey can never suffer. Heretics"We are never free until some

institution frees us, and libertycannot exist till it is declaredby authority. Manalive


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It is strange that men shouldsee sublime inspiration in theruins of an old church and seenone in the ruins of a man.

Twelve Types

There is no such thing asfighting on the winning side;one fights to find out which isthe winning side.Whafs Wrong with the WorldMen trust an ordinary man,

because they trust themselves.But men trust a great manbecause they do not trust them-selves. And hence the worshipof

greatmen always appears intime of weakness and cowar-

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men until the time when allother men are small. HereticsThe sin and sorrow of des-

potism is not that it does notlove men, but that it loves themtoo much and trusts them toolittle.

Robert BrowningMost modern freedom is at

root fear. It is not so muchthat we are too bold to endurerules ; it is rather that we aretoo timid to endure responsi-bilities.

What's Wrong -with the WorldOrdinary men will alwaysbe sentimentalists : for a senti-


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mentalist is simply a man whohas feelings and does nottrouble to invent a new wayof expressing them. The DefendantThe very definition of hellmust be energy without joy.Introduction to ThackerayThat is the awful thingabout women they refuse tobe emotional at emotional

moments upon some suchludicrous pretext as therebeing some one else there.The Ball and the CrossWhen men begin to grow

desperate in their love for thepeople, when they are over-


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whelmed with the difficultiesand blunders of humanity, theyfall back upon a wild desire tomanage everything themselves.Robert BrowningTo anything worth calling aman nothing can be conceivedmore cold or cheerless than to

be King of your Company.What's Wrong with the WorldSimple ignorance and indif-ference does not inflate the

character with pride. A mandoes not walk down the streetgiving a haughty twirl to hismoustaches at the thought ofhis superiority to some varietyof deep-sea fishes. The Defendant


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Aristocracy does not havesnobs any more than democracy.But we have neither securelyclosed our house nor boldlyopened it. We have merelylet it be whispered that awindow is unbarred at theback : and a few burglarsbreak in and are made peers.


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Our wisdom, whether ex-pressed in private or public,belongs to the world, but ourfolly belongs to those we love.Robert BrowningA man cannot indulge in asham joke, because it is the

ruin of a joke to be unintelli-gible. Twelve TypesMost of us have suffered

from a certain sort of ladywho, by her perverse unselfish-ness, gives more trouble than theselfish ; who almost clamoursfor the unpopular dish andscrambles for the worst seat.Most of us have known parties


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or expeditions full of thisseething fuss of self-effacement.What's Wrong with the World

If you throw one bombyou are only a murderer; butif you keep on persistentlythrowing bombs, you are inawful danger of at last be-coming a prig. William BlakeThe vulgar people want to

enjoy life just as they want toenjoy gin because they aretoo stupid to see that they arepaying too big a price for it.That they never find happinessthat they don't evenknow howto look for it is proved by the


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paralysing clumsiness and ugli-ness of everything they do.ManaliveMany waters cannot quench

love.Twelve Types

Piety is one of the popularvirtues, whereas soap andsocialism are two hobbies ofthe upper middle class.Whafs Wrong with the World

In a world without humour,the only thing to do is to eat.And how perfect an exception !How can these people strikedignified attitudes, and pretendthat things matter, when thetotal ludicrousness of life is


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proved by the very method bywhich it is supported ? A manstrikes the lyre and says, " Lifeis real, life is earnest" and thengoes into a room and stuffs aliensubstances into a hole in hishead.

The Napoleon oj Notting Hill

The Saint with a tile loose isa bit too sacred to be parodied.ManalivcIt is the standing peculiarityof this curious world of ours

that almost everything in it hasbeen extolled enthusiastically,and invariably extolled to thedisadvantage of everything else.Twelve Types


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"If Americans canbe divorcedfor incompatibility of temper"I cannot conceive why they arenot all divorced. I have knownmany happy marriages, butnever a compatible one. Thewhole aim of marriage is tofight through and survive theinstant when incompatibility be-comes unquestionable. For a.man and a woman, as such, areincompatible.Whafs Wrong with the World

The wise man will follow astar, low and large and fiercein the heavens, but the nearerhe comes to it the smaller andsmaller it will grow, till he


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finds it in the humble lanternover some little inn or stable.Not till we know the highthings shall we know howlowly they are. William BlakeThe most rigid and ruthlesswoman can begin to cry, just

as the most effeminate man cangrow a beard. It is a separatesexual power, and provesnothing one way or the otherabout force of character.Manalive

Workhouses and lunaticasylums are thronged with menwho believe in themselves.

Twelve Types


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I gravely doubt whetherwomen were ever married bycapture. I think they pre-tended to be ; as they do still.Whafs Wrong with the WorldThere is more of the songand music^of mankind in a clerk

putting on his Sunday clothes,than in a fanatic running downCheapside. William BlakePeople talk of the pathosand failure of plain women;but it is a more terrible thing

that a beautiful woman maysucceed ineverything

butwomanhood.

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Politeness has indeed aboutit something mystical : likereligion, it is everywhereunderstood and nowhere de-fined.

Twelve Types

As a part of personalcharacter, even the modernswill agree that many-sidednessis a merit and a merit that mayeasily be overlooked.What's Wrong -with the WorldThe personal is not a mere

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symbol of goodness. Goodnessis a symbol of God. William BlakeSo with the wan waste grasses

on my spear,I ride for ever, seeking afterGod.My hair grows whiter than mythistle plume,And all my limbs are loose ;but in my eyesThe star of an unconquerablepraise :For in my soul one hope forever sings,That at the next white cornerof a roadMy eyes may look on Him.The Wild Knight


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Until we love a thing in allits ugliness we cannot makeit beautiful.

Twelve TypesIf we all floated in the air

like bubbles, free to driftanywhere at any instant, thepractical result would be thatno one would have the courageto begin a conversation.Whafs Wrong with the World

It is true that all sensiblewomen think all sensible menmad. It is true for the matterof that, all women of any kindthink all men of any kind mad.But they do not put it intelegrams any more than they


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wire to you that grass is greenor God all-merciful. Thesethings are truisms and oftenprivate ones at that.A Club ofQueer Trades

For human beings, beingchildren, ha#e the childishwilfulness, the childish secrecy.And they never have from thebeginning of the world donewhat the wise men have seento be inevitable.

The Napoleon ofNetting Hill

It is not enough for aprophet to believe in hismessage ; he must believe inits acceptability. Twelve


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Cleverness kills wisdom :that is one of the few sad andcertain things.

What's Wrong with the WorldChaos is dull ; because in

chaos the train might indeed goanywhere, to Baker Street orBagdad. But man is a magician,and his whole magic is in this,that he does say "Victoria,"and lo ! it is " Victoria."

The Man ivho was ThursdayThat which is large enough

for the rich to covet is largeenough for the poor to defend.The Napoleon ofNotting HillWhy should I bow to the ages


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Because they were drear and; dry ?Slow trees and ripeningmeadowsFor me go roaring by,A living charge, a struggleTo escalade the sky.A Novelty (The Wild Knight)The man who is popularmust be optimistic about some-thing, even if he is onlyoptimistic about pessimism.Twelve TyJ>es

In everything on this earththat is worth doing, there is astage when no one would do itexcept for necessity or honour.Whafs Wrong with the WorldThe women were of the kind


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vaguely called emancipated,and professed some protestagainst male supremacy. Yetthese new women wouldalways pay to a man the extra-ordinary compliment which noordinary woman ever pays tohim, that of listening while heis talking. The Man who was Thursday

In this world of ours we donot go on and discover smallthings : rather we go on anddiscover big things. It is thedetail that we see first : it isthe design that we only seevery slowly and some men dienever having seen it at all.* William Blake


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The worst tyrant is not theman who rules with fearj theworst tyrant is he who rulesby love and plays on it as ona harp.

Robert BrowningA self-conscious simplicitymay well be far more intrinsi-

cally ornate than luxury itself.Twelve TypesBoth men and women ought

to face more fully the thingsthey do or cause to be done ;face them or leave off doingthem. Whafs Wrong with the World

Thieves respect property.They may wish the property


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to become their property thatthey may more perfectly respectit. But philosophers dislikeproperty as property ; theywish to destroy the very ideaof personal possession.The Man who was Thursday

Individually men may presenta more or less rational appear-ance, eating, sleeping andscheming. But humanity as awhole is changeful, mystical,fickle, delightful. Men aremen, but Man is a woman.The Napoleon ofNottins HillThere is one sin : to call a

green leaf grey.Whereat the sun in heavenshuddereth.


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There is one blasphemy : fordeath to pray,For God alone knoweth thepraise of death.

Ecclesiastes (The Wild Knight)Rum idea, this is, that tidi-

ness is a timid quiet sort ofthing ; why tidiness is a toilfor giants you can't tidy any-thing without untidying your-self Haven't you ever had aspring cleaning ? Manalive

Ease is the worst enemyof happiness and civilisation,potentially the end of man.

Twelve Tyj>esThe keeper of a restaurant


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would much prefer that eachcustomer should give his ordersmartly though it were forstewed ibis or boiled elephant ;rather than that each customershould sit holding his head inhis hands, plunged in arith-metical calculations about howmuch food there can be on thepremises. Whafs Wrong with the WorldModesty is too fierce and

elemental a thing for themodern pedants to understand.I had almost said too savagea thing. It has in it the joy ofescape, and the ancient shynessof freedom.

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Often and often the thing awhole nation can't settle is justthe thing a family could settle,Manalivc

It is not the man of pleasurewho has pleasure ; it is not theman of the world who ap-preciates the world. The manwho has learnt to do all con-ventional things perfectly hasat the same time learnt to dothem prosaically. Twelve Types

There are only three thingsin the world that women donot understand ; and they areLiberty, Equality and Fraternity.


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Teetotalism is a simplifica-tion 5 its objection to beer isnot really that beer makes aman a beast. On the contraryits real objection is that beermost unmistakably separates aman from a beast.

William Blake

The vision of a halved hostThat weep around an emptythrone ;And aureoles dark and angelsdead,Man with his own life standsalone.

"I am" he says his bankruptcreed ;" I am" and is again a clod.


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The sparrow starts, the grassesstir,For he has said the name ofGod.

Ultimate ( The Wild Knight]Stick to the man who looks

out of the window and tries tounderstand the world. Keepclear of the man who looks inat the window and tries tounderstand you. Manalivt

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