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If you try to talk about a truth that__ merely moral, people always think it__ merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs once said to me: __ only believe in the Holy Ghost in a spiritual sense._ Naturally, I said: __n what other sense could you believe it?_ And then he thought I meant he needn__ believe in anything except evolution, or ethical fellowship, or some bilge. . . . -- The Secret of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton
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If you try to talk about a truth that__ merely moral, people always think it__ merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs once said to me: __ only believe in the Holy Ghost in a spiritual sense._ Naturally, I said: __n what other sense could you believe it?_ And then he thought I meant he needn__ believe in anything except evolution, or ethical fellowship, or some bilge. . . . -- The Secret of Father Brown

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