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"he [André Malraux] was fond of quoting Napoleon’s proclamation, 'My life is quite a novel.'" Algis Valiunas reviewing Olivier Todd’s Malraux: A Life in National Review July 4, 2005 - and I suppose a "pithy" quotation fails if it requires an extensive gloss, but I have to add my reaction on reading this line, namely that if you ever notice such a thing about your own life you need to consider urgently the question "Yes but by which author?"

I want to thank Laurent Thibault for supporting my work vial Patreon.com.

"The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilized man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 18, 1906, reprinted in Gilbert! Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)

In my latest National Post column I warn of a massive breach of trust if reputable opinion doesn't stop shaming and shouting down people pointing to serious defects in climate change alarmist orthodoxy.

"Socialism… is full of the idea that an ordinary person is incompetent and must be superseded by an official – who is also an ordinary person. Their whole philosophy is that a thing must not be done by somebody but by somebody else." G.K. Chesterton in New Witness July 6 1916, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 # 1 (Sept.-Oct. 2016)

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The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, March 21, 2017"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2017/March/Ask_Professor_85.mp3[/podcast]