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"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."
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"The great are like the sun, even when hidden from the world they still shine."

"Greatness always inspires you to be great."

"Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality."

"To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance."

"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."
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"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."

"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."

"Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your scruples drugged."

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."

"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
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