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• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. — Fred Allen
• Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. — Jean de la Bruyere
• Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into… — Barry Goldwater
• The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows. — Confucius
• All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game. — Nellie Fox
• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a… — D. H. Lawrence
• You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. — Abraham Lincoln
• PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by… — Ambrose Bierce
• Optimism is the content of small men in high places. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal… — Calvin Coolidge
• A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will… — John Stuart Mill

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