From a letter Karel Capek wrote to Chesterton, imploring him to visit Prague:
"...If you would like to come next spring, I beg you to be my guest...You shall find here so many people who cherish you. I like you myself as no other writer; it's for your sake that being in London I went to habit in Notting Hill and it is for your sake that I liked it. I cannot believe that I should not meet you again. Please, come to Prague.
I wish you a happy New Year, Mr. Chesterton. You must be happy, making your readers happier. You are so good."
Quoted in Wisdom and Innocence, p. 349, by Joseph Pearce (emphasis mine)
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