People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as so…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.75, Simon and Schuster
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