He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four. β¨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.152, Simon and Schuster
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