What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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