No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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