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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
         

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.


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