No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rush towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. - Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle: "No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rush towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself."

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Afar	Arts	Blinking	Catch
Character	Crowd	Cunningly	Depart
Each	Endeavoring	Gathered	Great
Himself	Hovering	Leave	Little
Mirror	Property	Public	Reflex
Round	Rush	Scanning	Sooner
Such	Together	Towards	Vision

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