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Tag: Dapples Things
In Praise of Mediocrity
James Matthew Wilson
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January 20, 2014
Berwyn, PA. Everyone knows G.K. Chesterton's aphorism that, if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Dappled Things writer Karen Ullo...
