Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
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G. K. Chesterton quotes & passages
3 passages by G. K. Chesterton, from Orthodoxy, All Things Considered and Tremendous Trifles. G. K. Chesterton died in 1936, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
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