There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having o…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. ✨ The Man Who Was Thursday. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VIII : The Professor Explains, 1908.
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