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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Born: May 29, 1874
Died: Jun 14, 1936

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