“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
More from G. K. Chesterton
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“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
“The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he…”
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything…”