“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”

— G. K. Chesterton , Charles Dickens

Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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