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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as read more
So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,
Because his soul was great.
For he that once is good, is ever great.
For he that once is good, is ever great.
Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of read more
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir read more
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands
defauts.]
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
