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Great merit,
or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but
trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or
neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the
general run of the world.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
There is a
great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great
man is the man who makes every man feel great.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
Great and good
are seldom the same man.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
The price of
greatness is responsibility.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
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Greatness and
goodness are not means, but ends.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet,
Critic, Philosopher
Some have
greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
-- Frank Dane
He's the
greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On
Calvin Coolidge]
-- Clarence Darrow
1857-1938, American Lawyer
It is a
melancholy truth that even great men have their poor
relations.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
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