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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Age: 65 †
Born: 1814
Born: December 29
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Clergyman
Priest
E. H. Chapin
Edwin Hubbell Rev. Chapin
Anything
Soil
May
Proof
Better
Revolution
Grow
Progress
Grows
Overturn
Upon
Insure
Doe
Thrones

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