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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle
Men, Greatness, History
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.