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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Walter Savage Landor
Appreciation, Men, Would Be
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.401
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.