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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ↗

— Washington Allston

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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A great mind becomes a great fortune. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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