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Meanings of own greatness in English

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Usage of own greatness in English
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Such men have worked the deliverance of nations and their own greatness.
Men of Invention and Industry
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From the pinnacle of his own greatness he makes a piquant repartee.
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3
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I only saw a way for their destruction and our own greatness.
An Outcast of the Islands
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It was here that he located his own greatness as a President.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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He would demonstrate their imbecility and his own greatness by his works.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
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It's frequently quite brilliant, yet utterly convinced of its own greatness.
Independent.ie
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But that was nothing to the opinion he had of his own greatness.
The Shadow Line: A Confession
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But on this occasion his own greatness had probably isolated him.
Phineas Redux
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Rarely has a man been more comfortable with his own greatness.
A short history of nearly everything
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It is our own greatness, and the greatness of Germany.
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel
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We tremble at our own greatness, and shirk the sacrifices it demands from us.
Germany and the Next War
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Constant ransacked his memoryfor past proofs of his own greatness.
The Sirens of Titan
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When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness.
Bleak House
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But was it well for even a great man to admire his own greatness?
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
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He is dazzled by his own greatness, and intoxicated by the plaudits of his idolaters.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen
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Like one of her heroines, Maria Callas, she seems acutely aware of her own greatness.
The Guardian
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