Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. – Sir Max Beerbohm, 1920.
permalink source: AnonymousOliver Wendell Holmes was a man of fairly small stature. Holmes attended a meeting where he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes. "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."
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