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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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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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