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It's No Disgrace To Be A Private, You Know. Socrates Was A Plain Foot Soldier, A Hoplite.
-Saul Bellow
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It's No Disgrace To Be A Private,
Saul Bellow
It's No Disgrace To Be A Private, You Know. Socrates Was A Plain Foot Soldier, A Hoplite.
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