"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."

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"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."

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"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."

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