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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
         

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.


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