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Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)

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