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> [“I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. Well hath He spoken: "Swear not by thy head. Thou knowest not the hairs," though He, we read, writes that wild number in His own strange book. I cannot count the sands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/i-cannot-count-the-pebbles-in-the-brook-well-hath-he-spoken-swear-not/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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