"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.“
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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