There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.176, Simon and Schuster
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