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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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