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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ↗

— Horace

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A great artist is a great man in a great child. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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It takes a great man to be a good listener. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are. ↗

— Joe Wurzelbacher

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Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record. ↗

— Roger Maris

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. ↗

— Paul Valery

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