“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”
— James Frazer, book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 37, Oriental Religions in the West.
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[Buchli (Ed.), Victor, Christopher, Tilley, The Material Culture Reader, 2002, Berg, 1-85973-559-2, Oxford]
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Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.
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