The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an hones…

Umberto Eco
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). Travels in Hyperreality, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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