It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that ma…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary. ✨ Charles Dickens: The Last of the Great Men ch. 1 (1906)
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary. ✨ Charles Dickens: The Last of the Great Men ch. 1 (1906)

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