Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Bab…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? ✨ The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.
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