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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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