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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. – Henry David Thoreau

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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