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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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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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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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