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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the f

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle

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