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Which excerpt from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech best shows his modest tone?

A. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
B. It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.
C. And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
D. I remember: he asked his father: "Can this be true?" This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages.

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B. It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.

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B. It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.
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