“Your Eminence is as great a man as I have ever met.”
“Then God have mercy on humankind,” Richelieu replied.
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 11 “The Kitten and the Cardinal” (p. 207)
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1930s
“A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be servant of the society.”
Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)
“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
Attributed in Lincoln the Lawyer (1906) by Frederick Trevor Hill — Hill noted that he could find no record of whom Lincoln was insulting.
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“I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.”
Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 6, p. 47
“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
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