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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
         

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.


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