“There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

—  G. K. Chesterton

G.F. Watts http://books.google.com/books?id=PLpLAAAAMAAJ&q="There+is+only+one+thing+that+it+requires+real+courage+to+say+and+that+is+a+truism"&pg=PA17#v=onepage (1904)

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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