No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. (nor should they.)

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
-- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
-- Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
-- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
-- E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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