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It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are, but they only pay with interest what they have received.
It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are, but they only pay with interest what they have received.
Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Thomas B. Macaulay
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- Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 133 · printed citation: Macaulay · subject: Influence
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