Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
Source: Of Theodore Roosevelt, Masks in a Pageant, 1928.
-- William Allen White, (Feb 10 1868-1944), US journalist, editor; The Sage of Emporia's mixed tolerance, optimism, liberal Republicanism, and provincialism to edit his small-town newspaper, the Emporia Gazette.