"The distinction between Hades and hassocks--" began Father Brown. "Don't play the fool!" I said, roughly enough. "Was not without some philosophical value," continued the little priest, with unruffled good temper. "Human troubles are mostly of two kinds. There is an accidental kind, that you can't see because they are so close you fall over as you do over a hassock. And there is the other kind of evil, the real kind. And that a man will go to seek however far off it is--down, down, into the lost abyss." And he unconsciously pointed his stumpy finger downward towards the grass, which was
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