“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“It is unfortunate that a good talent and a good man seldom come together.”
Es ist ein Unglück, daß ein braves Talent und ein braver Mann so selten zusammen kommen!
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 25.
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