They died to save their country and they only saved the world.

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They died to save their country and they only saved the world.

G.K. Chesterton

1922

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Dying for one's country World War I

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Chesterton, G.K. "The English Graves." The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses. Cecil Palmer, 1922, I. 18.

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They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton

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