Quote by Walt Whitman
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. – Walt Whitman

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. – Walt Whitman

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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. – Mahatma Gandhi

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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cant have both. – Louis D. Brandeis

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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. – Benjamin Franklin

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