Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts o…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth? ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.39, Simon and Schuster
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