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- Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde
- Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. — Unknown Author
- The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with… — Samuel Johnson
- You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell
- Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! — Thomas B. Macaulay
- In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible… — Charles de Gaulle
- Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level… — Oscar Wilde
- Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in… — William Whewell
- We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. — Matthew Simpson