Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if …

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ✨ Tremendous Trifles (1909) On Lying in Bed
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ✨ Tremendous Trifles (1909) On Lying in Bed

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