Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
Charles Caleb Colton
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed, it betrays us.
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It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
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