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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. – Thomas Carlyle

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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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