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The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

— Georg Brandes An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

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