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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A noble book! all men's book!
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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No violent extreme endures.
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