G. K. Chesterton was an English author who defies summation.

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...How and why do you display all this energy for clearing walls and climbing trees in our melancholy, but at least rational, suburbs?

The stranger, so far as so loud a person was capable of it, appeared to grow confidential.

Well, it's a trick of my own, he confessed candidly. I do it by having two legs. 

G. K. Chesterton, Manalive.

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