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Robert   Harris, An Officer and a Spy Quotes: ...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...
         

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...


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