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To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away
in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self in
private. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting
to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself there
would be no heroes. We admire them, we envy them, for great qualities which we ourselves
lack. Hero worship consists in just that. |
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One can be a hero to other folk, and in a sort of vague way understand it,
or at least believe it, but that a person can really be a hero to a near and
familiar friend is a thing which no hero has ever yet been able to realize,
I am sure.
-Mark Twain's Autobiography
Heroine: girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him
next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would
rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it.
Hero: person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for
it.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
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