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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. - Thomas

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
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Mens hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. – Thomas Carlyle

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We resent an injury from a friend more than from an enemy. – Sophocles

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I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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If you cry “Forward,” you must make plain in what direction to go. – Anton Chekhov

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All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. – Mark Twain, about the Devil

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