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Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.
Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.
Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern
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- Richard Llewellyn
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- Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Richard Llewellyn: life dates 1906 to 1983. Wikidata Q561435, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561435 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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