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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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