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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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