...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people recko…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.
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