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QUOTATION:There’s nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
ATTRIBUTION:Melvyn Bragg (b. 1939), British broadcaster, author. quoted in Guardian (London, Sept. 23, 1988).

Referring to actor Richard Burton.
 
 
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