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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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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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