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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
         

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.


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