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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli
Passion, Men, Imagination
'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 4, ch. 13
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.