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• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.… — Joseph Addison
• Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He… — Benazir Bhutto
• I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious… — Martin Van Buren
• America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it… — Charles E. Stanton
• Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It… — Abraham Lincoln
• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.… — Hermann Hesse
• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories,… — Stephen Crane
• These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to… — Louis Pasteur
• ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. — Ambrose Bierce
• The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for… — Fernando Pessoa
• I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on… — Martin Van Buren

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