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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland. .…I never said it was wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was dangerous.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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