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.
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Epitomized
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To me, Olaf Stapledon's sci-fi writing epitomized the creativity of the British in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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