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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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