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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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