Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. Mc…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). Heretics
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