“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less”
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“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
“The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected”
“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite”
“It's the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected”
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”