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G.K. Chesterton Quotes: When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends :
         

When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read


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