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Marguerite Yourcenar
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Engrave this Quote I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.
-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian, novel Tell a Friend


 


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