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Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

Gerald Stanley Lee on fame

Crowds (1913), Book V, Part III, Chapter XVI.

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