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History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – 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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