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Lice in the slums show the slums are wrong, not that poor girls’ hair should be cut
Drawn from what G. K. Chesterton said
What G. K. Chesterton actually said
- G. K. Chesterton English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936)
It never seems to strike these people that the lesson of lice in the slums is the wrongness of slums, not the wrongness of hair.
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↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org
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