Daniel Boorstin

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    Let others sing of knights and paladins
    In aged accents and untimely words,
    Paint shadows, in imaginary lines,
    —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)