“They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes”
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“It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.”
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
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