The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them. (Barry Hughart)

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

Barry Hughart

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