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“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”— Mark Twain
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“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”— Henry David Thoreau
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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”— Rabindranath Tagore
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“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”— Lord Byron
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“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”— Gore Vidal
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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”— Edmund Burke
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“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”— Plutarch
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“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Great and good are seldom the same man.”— Winston Churchill
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“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”— Lee Iacocca
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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”— Robert Frost
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“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.”— Winston Churchill
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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”— Calvin Coolidge
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”— Edmund Burke
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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld