I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
- All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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