G. K. Chesterton quote about worth from What's Wrong with the World - if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
 G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910). copy citation

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Author G. K. Chesterton
Source What's Wrong with the World
Topic worth
Date 1910
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm

Context

“And the elegant female, drooping her ringlets over her water-colors, knew it and acted on it. She was juggling with frantic and flaming suns. She was maintaining the bold equilibrium of inferiorities which is the most mysterious of superiorities and perhaps the most unattainable. She was maintaining the prime truth of woman, the universal mother: that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
PART FIVE. THE HOME OF MAN
I. THE EMPIRE OF THE INSECT A cultivated Conservative friend of mine once exhibited great distress because in a gay moment I once called Edmund Burke an atheist. I need scarcely say that the remark lacked something of biographical precision; it was meant to.” source

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