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• People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by any internal characteristic.
• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- Victor Hugo
• To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. -- Victor Hugo
• The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind. YOUNG
• It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• An individual's greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporarie
  he most objective evaluators of a person's greatness are people who belong to a later time....
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
  -- Victor Hugo...
• No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity
  he greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted....
• The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself
  but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is....