“We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.”

— G. K. Chesterton

George Bernard Shaw (1909)

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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