“Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.”
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
“Of Congress, "party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire...are but secondary considerations," that "business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment.”
“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”
“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927”
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