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Unless the parents are saved, the children cannot be saved
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- G. K. Chesterton English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936)
Now I am concerned, first and last, to maintain that unless you can save the fathers, you cannot save the children; that at present we cannot save others, for we cannot save ourselves.
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↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org
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