A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. ✨ U…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. ✨ Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.
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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. ✨ Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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