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No sooner does...

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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar. . .

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 1, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, 1839.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.


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