Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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