Quotation by Dalton Trumbo

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976), U.S. author, screenwriter. Marcus Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Spartacus, explaining why he must perform an unpleasant task (1960).
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