#great ones

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ↗

— Aesop

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And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought. ↗

— Arthur Bryant

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones. ↗

— Patti Page

#always #been #could #done #elvis