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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. – Thomas Carlyle

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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. – Thomas Carlyle

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. – English Proverb

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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. – C. D. Andrews

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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. – Lawrence Durrell

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