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People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
Approximate author period: c. 1981 AD · modern
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- Tom Stoppard
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- Approximate author period: c. 1981 AD · modern
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