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“Where would a wise man hide a leaf?”
—“In the forest.”
—“But what does he do if there is no forest?”
—“Well, well,” cried Flambeau irritably,
“what does he do?”
—“He grows a forest to hide it in.”
Chesterton, G.K., “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, in
The Innocence of Father Brown
(1911).