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The English upper classes kept their power by always siding with progress
Drawn from what G. K. Chesterton said
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- G. K. Chesterton English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936)
The simple key to the power of our upper classes is this: that they have always kept carefully on the side of what is called Progress.
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↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org
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