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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Mountains appear more...

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Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Source: In Night Thought Book, 1834.
-- Lady Marguerite Blessington, (Sep 1 1789-1849), English socialite, writer; She is chiefly remembered for her Conversations of Lord Byron and for the intellectual circle which she headed in London.


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