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G.K. Chesterton Quotes: I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
         

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.


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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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