A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligen…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape. ✨ The Victorian Age in Literature by Gilbert K. Chesterton, University of Notre Dame Press, (p. 20), 1963.
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