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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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