Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not m…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ✨ All I Survey. Book by G. K. Chesterton, www.theguardian.com. 1933.
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ✨ All I Survey. Book by G. K. Chesterton, www.theguardian.com. 1933.

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