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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

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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