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George Bernard Shaw Quotes: The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
         

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.


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