“True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 292.
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