"We all can't be heroes, for someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
— Will Rogers

January 1, 1970

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Variant: We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. — As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 240