"I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.“


-Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

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