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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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