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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
Heretics, chapter on Bernard Shaw and greatness, 1905
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Chesterton wrote Heretics partly as a rebuttal to the era's worship of hardness and invulnerability. His redefinition of greatness — strength that enlarges rather than suppresses feeling — runs against the grain of every culture that tells boys to toughen up by shutting down.

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