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• He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I’m trying to be more like him as I get older.

  Steven Hall

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• A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

  Paul Valery

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• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  Edgar Allan Poe

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• Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

  Eugene Ionesco

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• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

  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.

  Honoré de Balzac

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  W. Clement Stone

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• 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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