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I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.

Augustine Birrell

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Augustine Birrell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1850
Born: January 19
Died: 1933
Died: November 20
Author
Barrister
Literary Critic
Politician
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell
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Doubt
Future
History
Past
Reverential
Much
Perturbed
Profoundly
Otherwise

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