Heroes

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
 Ralph W Emerson
 Representative Men, 1850

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
 F Scott Fitzgerald
 1940

No man is a hero to his valet.
 Mme Cornuel
 letters, 1728

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.
 Arthur Ashe
 

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
 Edward Howe
 

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
 Brothers Karamazov, 1880

I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.
 Tipoo Sultan
 1800

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