“It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) British philosopher
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13
“The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.”
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