G.K. Chesterton - “You have not wasted your time; you...”

“You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.”

G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

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