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"Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short."

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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

— Lu Xun

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