Thursday, November 8, 2018

Wisdom from G.K. Chesterton

For at present we all tend to one mistake; we tend to make politics too important. We tend to forget how huge a part of a man's life is the same under a Sultan and a Senate, under Nero or St. Louis. Daybreak is a never-ending glory, getting out of bed is a never-ending nuisance; food and friends will be welcomed; work and strangers must be accepted and endured; birds will go bedwards and children won’t, to the end of the last evening.

—G.K. CHESTERTON
from the essay What’s Right with the World,
found in In Defense of Sanity

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