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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 814
AUTHOR: Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)
QUOTATION: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
ATTRIBUTION: MAXWELL ANDERSON, Valley Forge, act II, scene ii, p. 92 (1937). Mary Philipse is referring to George Washington.
SUBJECTS: Greatness