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“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”

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Thomas Carlyle

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

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Thomas Carlyle

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

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Thomas Carlyle

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

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Thomas Carlyle

Work alone is noble.

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