...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the stra…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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