In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. (G. K. Chesterton)

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety.

G. K. Chesterton

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