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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and les

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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