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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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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. – Thomas Carlyle

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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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