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Tremendous Trifles

G. K. Chesterton

Forty short essays from the Daily News on small things: a piece of chalk, a cabman, lying in bed, a toy theatre, a train, a lion, the end of the world. Each trifle turns, by the turn of the paradox, into a window on the whole of creation.

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