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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

The Commonwealth Games

Still on holiday, WiFi still very slow so here's a quote which seems to fit the Commonwealth Games quite neatly.

We have the same grossly insincere pretence that sport always encourages a sense of honour, when we know that it often ruins it. Above all, we have the same great upper-class assumption that things are done best by large institutions handling large sums of money and ordering everybody about; and that trivial and impulsive charity is in some way contemptible.
G K Chesterton - What's Wrong with the World (1910)
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3 comments:

  1. Sam Vega29 July 2014 at 20:10

    So much truth and insight in two sentences. Chesterton was a great man.

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  2. Demetrius30 July 2014 at 13:58

    I was reading Chesterton over sixty years ago. He was as relevant then as he is now in many ways.

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  3. A K Haart30 July 2014 at 20:10

    Sam - he was. Enormous common sense always expressed with great gusto.

    Demetrius - very relevant. In some areas he had remarkable insight.

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