Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They
cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can
only represent what is unusual.


The ball and the cross (ed. 1910)

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe, or Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet. They cannot announce the...

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe, or Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet. They cannot announce the...

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe, or Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet. They cannot announce the...

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe, or Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet. They cannot announce the...