Disciples

(174 votes)   Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(125 votes)   Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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