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Angus Wilson

"The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times."

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"The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times."

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