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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill- treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ’The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell, (Education and the Social Order [London: Allen & Unwin, 1932])
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)  

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