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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on the unnaturalness of everything in the light of the supernatural.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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