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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

Dalton Trumbo

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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