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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
         

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.


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