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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
         

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.


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