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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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