"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.“


-Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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