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If you have a great person in charge then a benevolent dictator is wonderful.

Waked with a very high wind, and said to my wife, "I pray God I hear not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high!"

Sometimes a new kind of clothing is called after some great person just to make it seem distinguished.

Her object was to insinuate herself, so to speak, into fortune, by making herself useful to some great person.

In the first case he is in our eyes a morally great person; in the second he is only aesthetically great.

Unless you are a very great person indeed, the surest way to lose a reputation as poet is to gain one as critic.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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