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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reaso

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

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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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