#great man

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

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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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Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. ↗

— Diane Keaton

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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