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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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