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If Shakespeare borrowed, he jolly well paid back

He chided Chesterton for his use of poorly conceived dialogue. "Chesterton's youth from the States 'reckons' in his second speech, 'guesses' in his third, and, before he has been on the stage five minutes, breaks out with 'Tarnation!' - and so confirms your haunting fear that another Englishman had taken to writing American dialect.

Preach, brother. < /American dialect >

I can still feel the gentle shock of reading that sentence for the first time, that flash of realization - not that you fully understand the author, but, far rarer and more memorable, that the author knows all about you

Yes. That is exactly how I feel about Chesterton. Exactly.

...A passage from Chesterton's study of St Francis of Assissi: "Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful - and has nobody to thank."