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It is one of Mr. Chesterton’s jolly maxims that a man should be able to laugh at himself, poke fun at himself, enjoy his own absurdity. It is an excellent test of the mental health. .Man is a tragi-comedian. He should see himself the quaint "forked radish" that he is, fantastic as well as wonderful. He should see his mind ready to do battle and die, if need be, for an idea, but equally ready to get into a passion because his egg is boiled too hard. He should, in a word, see hirns»‘lf not as a hero ; but as a man of strange virtues and stranger follies, a figure to move him to alternate admiration and laughter.—" Daily News."

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Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 7, 5 October 1908, Page 7

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Untitled Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 7, 5 October 1908, Page 7

Untitled Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 7, 5 October 1908, Page 7

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