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How many august bronze figures don’t have clay feet?—Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021 Its cartooned pages confirmed their suspicions that parents are hypocrites, that heroes have clay feet, that popular culture is a ripoff and that a guy might as well laugh at existence because existence is already laughing at him.—David Von Drehle, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
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