Gilbert
Keith
Chesterton
(1874
–
1936)
Born
in
London,
UK.
He
studied
at
the
Slade
School
of
Art,
then
turned
to
writing.
He
wrote
The
Innocence
of
Father
Brown
(1911),
Wisdom
of
Father
Brown
and
other
novels.
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It
must
not
be
supposed
that
Dr
Hood's
apartments
excluded
luxury,
or
even
poetry.
These
things
were
there,
in
their
place;
but
one
felt
that
they
were
never
allowed
out
of
their
place.
Luxury
was
there:
there
stood
upon
a
special
table
eight
or
ten
boxes
of
the
best
cigars;
but
they
were
built
upon
a
plan
so
that
the
strongest
were
always
nearest
the
wall
and
the
mildest
nearest
the
window.
A
tantalus
containing
three
kinds
of
spirit,
all
of a
liqueur
excellence,
stood
always
on
this
table
of
luxury;
but
the
fanciful
have
asserted
that
the
whisky,
brandy,
and
rum
seemed
always
to
stand
at
the
same
level.
Poetry
was
there:
the
left-hand
corner
of
the
room
was
lined
with
as
complete
a set
of
English
classics
as
the
right
hand
could
show
of
English
and
foreign
physiologists…
Dr
Hood
treated
his
private
book-shelf
as if
it
were
a
public
library.
And
if
this
strict
scientific
intangibility
steeped
even
the
shelves
laden
with
lyrics
and
ballads
and
the
tables
laden
with
drink
and
tobacco,
it
goes
without
saying
that
yet
more
of
such
heathen
holiness
protected
the
other
shelves
that
held
the
specialist's
library,
and
the
other
tables
that
sustained
the
frail
and
even
fairylike
instruments
of
chemistry
or
mechanics…
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