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• The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind. -- G. Young
• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated.
  -- Mahatma Gandhi...
• You can always tell an old soldier from the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes.
  The young ones carry pistols and cartridges: the old ones, grub....
• How do you uncover greatness in a city so poor that a man will provoke another man into an argument just so that his donkey can be eating the other man's grass while they argue?
• Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul
  The mind 's the standard of the man....
• You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies. -- Doctor Who
• There is no such thing as a little country. the greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
  -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)...
• Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
  -- G. Norman Collie...
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. -- Thomas Carlyle