To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man ca

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. – Edgar Allan Poe

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When I was 20, I thought I was 30 – but I was so far from it. When youre young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience. – Elisha Cuthbert

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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. – Plato

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It is anothers fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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