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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All great peoples are conservative. – Thomas Carlyle

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

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