"I would look at the first chapter of……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was."

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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