The Works of G.K. Chesterton
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- Author: G.K. Chesterton
- Full Title: The Works of G.K. Chesterton
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- They were taken seriously because they were avowedly useless extras, like the whole dinner and the whole club. (Location 894)
- all those vague and kindly gentlemen were so used to the utter smoothness of the unseen machinery which surrounded and supported their lives, that a waiter doing anything unexpected was a start and a jar. (Location 934)
- drinking what the philosophic observer was free to regard either as his last glass on Tuesday or his first on Wednesday. (Location 2602)
- He was a lucid Southerner, incapable of conceiving himself as anything but a Catholic or an atheist; and new religions of a bright and pallid sort were not much in his line. But humanity was always in his line, especially when it was good-looking; (Location 2926)
- The office was kept by two sisters, both slight and dark, one of them tall and striking. She had a dark, eager and aquiline profile, and was one of those women whom one always thinks of in profile, as of the clean-cut edge of some weapon. She seemed to cleave her way through life. She had eyes of startling brilliancy, but it was the brilliancy of steel rather than of diamonds; and her straight, slim figure was a shade too stiff for its grace. (Location 2928)
- Note: sounds like crystal
- she had been brought up in castles and gardens, before a frigid fierceness (peculiar to the modern woman) had driven her to what she considered a harsher and a higher existence. (Location 2934)
- the unbearable pathos of details and habit stabbed him with all the small daggers of bereavement. (Location 3005)
- drink is neither good nor bad in itself. But I can't help sometimes feeling that men like Armstrong want an occasional (Location 3555)
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