You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. ✨ Dictionary of Quotations in Communications by Lilless McPherson Shilling, p. xvi, 1997.
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