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“There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needsapart from discernmenta certain greatness to find him.”
—Margot Asquith (18641945)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (18651933)
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