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      "exact": "My acceptance of the universe is not optimism, it is more like patriotism.",
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  "body_markdown": "‘A Defence of Patriotism’ distinguishes attachment to a country from appetite for territory and insists that love makes national wrongdoing painful. Its familial analogy is especially close: a son would remain with a mother who drank, but would not regard her drinking with indifference. Chesterton consequently makes truthful counsel a duty of love, rather than an interruption of it. [The Defendant, ‘A Defence of Patriotism’](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12245).\n\nThat distinction helps read the apparently surprising appeal to ‘jingo literature’. The useful inheritance is a felt obligation to stand by something, not a settled permission to praise whatever it does. Applied to the family fortress, misery increases the obligation to stay and help; it does not turn misery into a virtue. The paragraph establishes the permanence of attachment, leaving the chapter's ensuing argument to explain the freedom to reform what one loves.",
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    "This comparison establishes continuity in Chesterton's formulation; it does not identify a particular adventure story as the target of ‘jingo literature’. No claim of a comprehensive rejection of empire is intended."
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