Daniel Boorstin

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    This honour is a thing conceived
    And rests on others’ fame;
    —Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

    In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)