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“For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.” quote by C. V. Wedgwood — Download Open image

“For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.”

C. V. Wedgwood

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Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

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the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

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historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

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It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

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International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

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