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I don't know whether G. K. Chesterton said your quote first or if Oscar Wilde said "Morality, like art consists of drawing a line." The point is though, I believe they meant the same thing; the idea has more to do with morality than art, but it essentially means while art (at least one form) involves the physical expression of drawing a line, morality involves drawing a line metaphorically between write and wrong, et al.

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