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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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Great men always pay deference to greater. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

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It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

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