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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
         

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.


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