What G. K. Chesterton thinks about ideas vs execution

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English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.

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   Our readingCities became great because people loved them first, not the reverse

   Their wordsPeople first paid honour to a spot and afterwards gained glory for it. Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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