Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron.

—William Ritter in Beastly Bones

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This world doesn't need showy champions. It needs people who are good, people who do good, even if nobody will ever know.

—William Ritter in The Dire King

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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

—Havelock Ellis

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Greatness of mind is never measured by what one disbelieves.

—Brandon Emrys

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Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

—Rebecca Maizel in Infinite Days

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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

—Samuel Johnson

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Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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