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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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