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Imagination does not breed insanity; reason does
Drawn from what G. K. Chesterton said
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- G. K. Chesterton English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936)
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.
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