"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.“


-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.

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