• God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

  Georges Bernanos
  French writer 1888-1948
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. greatness
2. beggars
3. should
4. shines

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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it. by : Georges Bernanos

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