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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Kingston
John Sinjohn
Future
Cannot
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Thinking

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