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Great Man Quotes by Knut Hamsun
- Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and…
- No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man…
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- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
- Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. — Jim Carrey
- A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. — B R Ambedkar
- If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a… — William Cowper
- There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner
- How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose,… — Walter Russell
- Every great man is unique. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez